SOURCES OF THE HISTORY OF THE EASTERN MERCHANTS OF ASTRAKHAN AT I HALF OF XIX CENTURY
Major role in the structure of the Astrakhan merchants, carrying out foreign trade with Asian countries in the first half of the nineteenth century, was occupied by Oriental traders. They are merchants from Persia, the Caucasus and Iran, as received Russian citizenship, and the citizenship of their countries. In this paper we consider the complex of historical sources that reveal the composition and dynamics of changes in the composition of this entrepreneurial group.