POSSESSIONS OF THE SKOPINSKY DIMITRIEVSKY MONASTERY: THE SECOND HALF OF THE XVIII-THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY
The article examines an important aspect of the socio-economic life of the Skopinsky Dimitrievsky Monastery - the change in the composition of its possessions during the period from the secularization of church property in 1764 to 1917. Special attention is paid to the negative consequences of the reform of 1764 for the life of the monastery, and also the activity of the monastery's ktitor Alexey Fokich Kareev, and the new, more favorable for the material life of Russian monasteries, decrees of the Russian legislation of the late XVIII-early XIX centuries, served to restore the monastery's economy.