Domostroy" O. Sylvester as the first Russian textbook on Economics
The article comprehensively examines the history and basic content of the "Domostroy" by father Sylvester. Particular emphasis is placed on solving of the problem of authorship of the text, as well as on the impact of the basic principles set out in this literary monument on the Russian society. The main conclusions are as follows. On the one hand, "Domostroy" by O. Sylvester took the centuries-old tradition of the Russian religious economy, and, on the other hand, had a huge impact on all subsequent development of Russian society and Russian writing. In the entire history of Orthodoxy in Russia we can find a large number of works that expressed exactly the same ideas. "Domostroy" had been corresponded for centuries by hand and passed from one kind to another as a sacred thing. The name of Archpriest Silvester is perpetuated in people's consciousness, that doesn't happen to many other authors of ancient works - and this is a direct proof, how hopes of people were exactly predicted by him and thier needs were described. Sylvester says about himself that he always tried to follow his nine rules. A deep, close and reverent study of traditions of the Russian religious economy is also important for modern Orthodox people and economists: human nature has remained virtually unchanged over the past thousand years, and therefore it can be influenced by the same methods, instilling in it the same principles that father Sylvester, Yaroslav the Wise, and Ivan Pososhkov did.