CLOTH INDUSTRY OF STATE PEASANTS ON THE TERRITORY OF MOSCOW AND MOSCOW PROVINCE IN THE 80S-90S OF THE XVIII <sup>th</sup> CENTURY
The work is devoted to the unsuccessful attempt of the government to get state peasants’ private manufactories involved in servicing the army. The material received during the research enables to make the analysis of the features and level of cloth production development on the territory of the outskirts of Moscow and Moscow province in the second half of Ekaterina Il’s reign. That is: to describe such complex phenomenon of city space arrangement as industrial outskirts of large cities; to trace the spread of economic specialization in an enclosed region; to mark the peculiar features of industrial development which characterized the contradictory pre-reform period.