"And that earth - the grasslands and the wood - the steppe place, lies in the emptiness and is given to nobody" (Monastic colonization of Zavolzhsky region: the tribute articles of the Kostroma Epiphany Monastery in the Kazan district in the XVII century)
The work is devoted to the analysis of one of public acts - the import diploma given by the Kazan voevode D. Dolgorukov to the Kostroma Epiphany Monastery for the tribute articles (meadows and woods) in the Kazan district and to inclusion of this acts in a scientific turn. The features of kolonizational of the Zavolzhsky Area' development in the 60th of the XVII century and one of ways of expansion of the landed property to which monasteries resorted are reflected in the article.