THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE STUDY OF MONASTERIES LANDOWNERSHIP OF THE KAZAN DISTRICT IN THE SECOND HALF OF XVI - EARLY XVII CENTURY
In connection with the growing interest in regional history is a topical study of the process of accession of the Kazan khanate in the middle of the XVI century, during which the Orthodox monasteries preserved important economic function. Many of them continue to operate on the territory of modern Tatarstan, while others are in stages of recovery, so repeatedly attracted the attention of researchers. The novelty of this work is to analyze the historiography of monastic land tenure in Kazan district of the second half of XVI - early XVII century, the aim of which was to identify the main problems and prospects of studying monastic landownership in the region. The methodological basis of work was the principle of historicism, which made it possible to trace the formation of the views of historians with regard to the historical conditions of creation of their works. Historical-genetic and historical-comparative methods were used by the author in the analysis of works on the history of land tenure in Kazan monasteries from the nineteenth century to the present, helped to compare the findings of researchers on issues of land tenure. As a result the paper is devoted to the historiography of the study of monastic land tenure in the Kazan district in the second half of the XVI - early XVII century. The author draws our attention to that the researchers began to show the interest in this question in the 40-ies of the XIX century. The most studied was the question of the land ownership and farming for during the initial integration of the former Kazan khanate the Moscow State in the second half of the XVI century and in the second half of the XVII century of the four Kazan monasteries (Zilant, Transfiguration, Trinity, Virgin Monastery). The tenure of the Kazan monasteries in the time of Troubles is still poorly understood. The general research of the monastery land ownership of the Kazan district and the Middle Volga in XVI-XVII century are absent. The issues of internal economic structure of the monastery land ownership and farming require additional studies.