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As one of the provisions of the Charter to the Towns (promulgated 21 April 1785), Catherine the Great called for each town in the empire to ‘compile and maintain’ a Book of City Inhabitants (Kniga gorodskikh obyvatelei). This book was to have several uses. According to the Charter itself, it was to be compiled ‘so that each citizen’s acquisitions may be transferred from father to son, to grandson, to great-grandson, and to their posterity’.1 The book was therefore upon its simplest reading to be a legal document used to establish the right to ownership, in particular the ownership of immovable property.
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21. Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Opisanie rossiisko-imperatorskago stolichnago goroda Sankt-Peterburga i dostopamiatnostei v okrestnostiakh onogo (3 vols. in 1; St Petersburg, 1794).
22. Michelle Lamarche Marrese, A Woman’s Kingdom: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700–1861 (Ithaca and London, 2002).
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Munro, G.E. (2003). Compiling and Maintaining St Petersburg’s ‘Book of City Inhabitants’: The ‘Real’ City Inhabitants. In: Cross, A. (eds) St Petersburg, 1703–1825. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403937469_6
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