PROPERTY DIFFERENTIATION OF KYIV BURGHERS AT THE END OF THE 18TH – IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 19TH

Abstract

In the paper we considered the property differentiation of Kyiv burghers at the end of the 18th – in the middle of the 19th century. The important event for the selection of the burghers among the other population of the city was the spread of the Imperial manifesto to Kyiv in 1775. According to the manifesto, among the whole population of the city, there were selected merchants, who was divided into three guilds, and burghers, who became one of the poorest people in the city. At the beginning of the 19th century burghers’ houses cost from 2 – to 600 rubles. The majority of the burghers owned houses, which cost from 20 – to 100 rubles. Most of all there were wooden dilapidated houses. About that fact we know from the acts of the “Kyiv city orphan court”. So, the burghers owned a small amount of property. Some of them went the streets and asked for handout. Wealthy burghers were very rare exception.