EPISCOPAL AUTHORITY OF PRE-MONGOL RUSSIA: ECONOMIC ASPECT
The article traces the changes in the financial position of episcopal authority during the pre-Mongol period. While after the baptism of Russia the support of priesthood was carried out by the prince's authority, by the first third of the XIII th century episcopal chairs got stable income from the prince and ecclesiastical court, polyud'e (the process of gathering tribute) and the tithe from their districts, placing to church positions, land and commercial holdings, and the laity's grants.