Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-4907 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1913 (Online)


the Russian State in the late XVI century

The Capias Warrant of 1596 from the Archive of the Theotokos Convent in Suzdal

This paper acquaints the historians with a newly found primary source, which refers to an extremely rare (for the XVI century Russia) kind of legal record — a capias warrant; in this case the one that describes course of inquest on Ivan Oboiutin's gang. The publication is preceded by an analysis of the document’s content.