Demographic events by the petitions of the serving people in the first of the 17th century
In the article we are talking about different forms of civil registration in Russia 17th cent. Attention is drawn to the Church, represented by hierarchal documentation departments. It is proposed to analyze sociocultural petitions military people 1623-1626. In them they requested the dismissal to a temporary leave of absence in connection with various demographic event - marriages, illnesses, death of relatives. An extensive set of petitions can be regarded as a kind of accounting of military people Moscow ranks in Bit order.