The role of coincidence in the life of peasants inhabiting land estates of Tobolsk Sofia House in the 17th century (according to the census books)

The article examines the process of populating land estates Tobolsk Sofia House land estates in the XVII century through the prism of the peasants’ life stories. Nowadays the main source allowing to trace the course of life, is the census books dated to the XVII century. The life story of each and every peasant is unique in its kind, but a series of coincidences always plays a certain part, setting its vector of development.