A Popular History of Russia From the Earliest Times to 1880 volume 1
A Popular History of Russia From the Earliest Times to 1880 volume 1
Alfred Rambaud
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The Russian towns were composed, first, of a fortress or kreml, generally built with wooden walls, into which at need a garrison of militia could be sent ; next, of districts or wards inhabited by the citizens or merchants. They were governed by voievodui nominated by the prince, or by a starosta, or mayor, who was elected by an assembly of the inhabitants, nobles, priests, or citizens, but was always a gentleman. The starosta governed the town and the district depending on it. As the citizens ...paid the heaviest taxes, they were forbidden to quit the town ; they were, as during the last days of the Ro- man Empire, bound to the city glebe. Alexis Mikhailovitch afterwards attached the pain of death to this prohibition. To assess the impost, the starosta convoked at once both the deputies of the town and those of the rural communes. The impost of the taglo was paid by the town collectively, in pro- portion to the number of fires, and all the people were collec- tively responsible for each other to the state.
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