About the appearance of the Russian border in Lapland (some results of the discussion)

Abstract

The article deals with the emergence of the Russian state border in Lapland. The author shows that the existing ideas in the historiography negate each other, and offers a solution to this issue on the basis of another method connected with the rise and fall of the system of double tribute of indigenous peoples — the Lapps (Saami). The approach is illustrated on the basis of traditional methods of analysis of sources, including ancient acts of Moscow and Danish rulers from the archaeographic collection of Y.N. Sherbachev.

Keywords

• frontier
• Lapps
• Russia
• Moscow
• Novgorod
• Norway
• Denmark
• Sweden
• demarcation
• Lapland problem
• border