title: Agrarian Business of Merchant Women of the Central Chernozem Region in Post-reform Period
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metadata.value: Menshikova, Evgenia N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-04-08T14:49:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-04-08T14:49:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-03
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metadata.value: Menshikova E. N. Agrarian Business of Merchant Women of the Central Chernozem Region in Post-reform Period. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2024, vol. 69, issue 1, pp. 39–57. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2024.103 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2024.103
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45260
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article analyses the forms of the presence of merchant women in the agricultural business
  of the Central Chernozem region. After the emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia, land
  became a commodity for all classes. At the time, merchant women showed increased entrepreneurial
  interest in the land market of the region. Merchant women invested in a variety of
  types of land: arable land, vegetable gardens, forests, meadows, pastures, swamps, gardens, as
  well as land in the city that belonged to private individuals or the municipality. On the land
  outside the city merchants placed their industrial enterprises (brick, iron foundries, salt-melting
  plants), which carried an unfavorable environmental burden to the city. Many merchant
  women owned large landed property. This allowed them to be large landowners of the Central
  Chernozem provinces. Land was an asset whose value was increasing every year. Merchant
  women performed numerous operations with the land: they bought (mainly from nobles and
  peasants), sold, took, leased and subleased, carried out numerous collateral operations. Representatives
  of all estate groups of provincial society became business partners for merchants
  in the agricultural business. It was a common phenomenon for merchants to build business
  relations in the agricultural business between members of the same merchant family (often
  between a wife and husband). Merchant women operated in the agricultural sector of the region,
  relying on their own and borrowed funds of individuals and banking institutions (Moscow
  land banks, Kharkov land banks, Oryol land banks, Yelets City Public Bank, Oryol branch
  of the State Bank).
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) within the framework of scientific
  research “Merchant women of the Central Chernozem region in the second half of the 19th — early
  20th century: “survival strategy” and a story of professional success”, project no. 23-28-01396 headed by
  E. N. Menshikova.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 69; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: merchant women
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: post-reform period
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Russian Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Central Chernozem region
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: agricultural business
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: land market
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: land ownership
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: lease
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pledge
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Agrarian Business of Merchant Women of the Central Chernozem Region in Post-reform Period
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metadata.value: Article
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