THE TRAJECTORY OF COLONIZATION OF SERVICE PEOPLE IN THE COMFLUENTS OF THE PSLA RIVER AFTER THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BELGOROD LINE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of archival materials and other narrative sources, on the basis of which the places of outflow during the settlement of service military people from the middle of the XVII-th century at Oboyansky and Sudzhansky counties are established. The authors consider the entire process mentioned above for each migration category separately. Researchers determine the percentage of the forced settlementers who didn't come and the importance of their institute of guarantee, among the unauthorized migrants – their social composition and the presence of fellow countrymen among them, and among the local population – the role of their influence on the entire settlement process. As a result, the authors found that both of these counties were populated mainly by the surrounding trajectory and had many boyar children who wanted to have estates in the rear. Even in these counties, the northern trajectory of settlement ceases to dominate, from which, in both of them, its western direction prevailed over the eastern one. By the way, the latest presence was a characteristic feature of the Oboyan county, due to the forced settlement of the Karpov city. The peculiarity of the Sudzhansky county was in the initial presence of the local population, as well as in close proximity to the ukrainians from the Sumy Sloboda Regiment. The authors note that, basically, common features in the settlement of Sudzhansky and Oboyansky counties determined their proximity, as well as their location on the same river system. Moreover, the settlement of one county smoothly flowed into another. After all, the active colonization of the tributaries of the Psel river by service military people took place alternately from east to west during the strengthening of the rear of the Belgorod line. By the way, it was moving towards the Ukrainian colonization, which proceeded along the reverse trajectory from west to east. They met on the territory of the Sudzhansky county. In addition to this conclusion, the authors established that geography of settlement in the study area was an avalanche-like, due to the fact that over time, the exit points of the northern trajectory shifted south.

Keywords

• military service people
• warriors
• single-court people
• smallholders
• unauthorized migrants
• forced settlementers
• indigenous people
• crimean tatars
• trajectory
• settlers
• county
• central chernozem region
• tula line
• belgorod line