«Beyond the line»

This article examines the formation of large local areas of agricultural and industrial populations in the forest -steppe borderlands of the Southern Middle Volga region after the end of the Time of Troubles, in the 1620-ies–early 1640-ies. An attempt has been made to identify the special role of representatives of the royal family and the highest ecclesiastical circles, as well as privileged merchants, in this process. This study continues a series of papers devoted to the study of the specifics of the mass governmental, military-administrative, and economic agricultural-industrial colonization of the European southeast of the Russian state during its development as a frontier. The work is based on sources from the collections of the Russian State Archives of Ancient Documents (RGADA), the Russian State Library’s Archives of Archives (OR RSL), and other central Russian archives, as well as previously published sources. The study demonstrated that throughout the joint reign of Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich and Patriarch Filaret, they maintained close cooperation with Nadeya (Epiphanius) Sveteshnikov, a guest belonging to a privileged merchant corporation. This cooperation enabled the development of one of the most significant foreign fishing industries in the Volga Delta and the establishment of two large local centers of industrial and agricultural settlement in the Samara Luka

Frontier · Middle East · Reign · Samara · Volga region · Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends · Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation · Soviet and Russian History