On two customs charters in the late XVIth century sent to the Solovetsky monastery

The paper is part of a series of works studying the way customs duties changed at the territory of Russia through the period of late 15th - early 17th centuries via a comparative analysis of customs charters. Here the author studies two charters dated 1590s issued on behalf of Russian Tsars Fyodor Ivanovich and Boris Fyodorovich to control the customs duties in fiefdoms of the Solovetsky Monastery located on the banks of the White Sea. The author compares these two charters and considers the circumstances of their issue and the way the monks of the Solovetsky Monastery were related to the charters. The author uses the information contained the monastery account books of the later 17th century to illustrate the declared charters’ standards. The final conclusion confirms the analysis of customs charters discovered in Belozersk region (1497-1602), Kaluga (1621) and Kursk (1620).