Spatial Organization of Palace Possessions in the Kazan District in the 16th-17th Centuries
The issues of creation and development of palace land ownership and formation of palace volosts in the Kazan district are studied in the article on the basis of cadastre descriptions. The paper defines the areas of preferable resettlement of peasants and compact nested localization of palace settlements, their population, number of yards as well as number and time frames of the stages of population migration to the Middle Volga Region from the central districts. An extensive factual material is given on the dynamics of population of peasant and solitary men's yards and palace settlements.