"People for various inventions inmost" (Some social aspects of the inventive thought history in Russia)
Research in the filed of the inventions history in Russia is of current interest and this approach may allow achieving interesting results. One of its significant aspects is the phenomenon social parameters study. Manuscript sources analysis shows that during the XVIII-XIX centuries two social groups paid significant contribution to the history of inventions in Russia: - representatives of petty merchants, craftsmen and tradesmen from the urban estate; - serfs including those whose landlords allowed them working and earning in the cities from the rural estate. People’s creative activity, particularly their inventiveness, innovative attitude to their work are ponderable evidence of the nation’s potential energy and its ability to move forward.