NECROPOLIS OF THE 16<sup>th</sup> - 17<sup>th</sup> CENTURIES TO THE SOUTH OF SMOLENSKY CATHEDRAL OF THE MOSCOW NOVODEVICHY CONVENT: IDENTIFICATION AND GENEALOGY
The article continues a series of works devoted to the entombments of the 16th and 17th centuries in the area of the main temple, the Cathedral of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God in the Novodevichy Convent. It publishes 15 gravestones lying to the south and southwest of its gallery, including under the south porch, and discovered by archaeological research in 2019-2020. This is the only series of gravestones from the monastery's early cemetery outside the cathedral basement that has been preserved in situ. Most of the gravestones contain the inscriptions with dates from 1562/1563 to 1651/1652. The inscriptions show a certain egalitarianism in the choice of those who were honored to be buried at the main temple of the monastery. Side by side there are persons from noble families who owned lands near the monastery (Morozovy, Muromtsevy), princesses of the Smolensk house (Korkodinovy, Drutskie), servants of the monastery (Okoyomovy, Govorukhiny), representatives of the clergy of the cathedral. A significant part of the article is devoted to identifying the buried ones and analyzing their family and kinship ties, as well as their position in society, service, possessions and other plots of a biographical and genealogical nature. The identification was made on the basis of data from genealogies and stern books, as well as synodicons of various ancient Russian monasteries.