Псковушко, город на Великой (г. Псков 2010)

The Market numbered nearly 1700 stalls and was divided into almost 40 rows. The majority of them belonged to the craftsmen: icon row, silver row, mittens row and many others. Many shops were a combination of a shop and a workshop. Pskovian artisans owned more than half of all workshops and paid taxes in spite of the fact that the records of the crafts contained only 178 people. Lists of the crafts numbered from 40 to 98 professions. They covered almost all branches of craft with the exception of glass-blowing. Craftsmanship in Pskov had narrow specialization.
Salesmen owned the shops in trade rows: broadcloth, salt, blacksmith, (Tverskoy), rags, honey, flax and a few meat rows. The number of salespeople was 3-4 times less than the number of craftsmen.
In the vicinity of the Market there were placed "Gostyny Dvory" (Inns) with warehouses for guests -merchants and for their goods under the names: Bolshoi (Big), Tverskoy, For Moscow Guests, Flax and Salt.
Among the merchants were twenty to thirty of the richest merchants, who made the big deals and who were in control of all trade affairs. Since Veche Pskov's times, we know about the merchant's guilds with the elders at the head, who were at the same time the heads of the church communities and had always been in the thick of things in "Master Pskov". Influencial merchants worked hand in hand with the boyars and they all were expelled from Pskov by the order of the Moscow government in 1510. "Moscow guests" came in their place and were accomodated in the same way. Pskov's administrative body consisted of 12 Moscovian and 12 Pskovian elders. They exercised power over the craftsmen and trade people, collected taxes, tolls and performed diplomatic errands. It was their responsibility to supervise all the stone construction. They were granted lands for their service. The most celebrated elders of Pskov were Semyon Prepodobov, Zakhar and Ivan Kovyrins and Semyon Mizinov. By the 1560s, the commerse of Pskov had revived.

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