Reading comprehension

Make up the summary of the text using the questions to organize your answer:

1. Were Russian monasteries really rich?

2. Why were strict regulations made and enforced against the monasteries?

3. With which purpose did princes, nobles and rich merchants give privileges or lands to monasteries?

4. Which government body confiscated all the property of the monasteries?

5. What measures were provided to support the monks?

 

Vocabulary notes

enforce                               обеспечивать соблюдение

convent                              монастырь

nobles                                дворяне

vie                                     соперничать

welfare of their souls         спасение их душ

serfs                                   крепостные

common law                      общее право

inquiry                               расследование

inmate                               обитатель

works of charity                акты благотворительности



REFERENCES

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3. Dejan Arsenovsky, English for tax professionals. ProEngllish Publishing. 2016 ISBN 978-0-578-18097-7

4. Dictionary of taxation terms. Copyright European Commision. 1996

ISBN: 92-826-9064-4

5. Geoffrey A. Hosking, Russia and the Russians: A History. 2001, Harvard University, 718p.

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https://www.investopedia.com/

7. Michael Burgan, Empire of the Mongols. Shoreline Publishing Group LLC, p.75-76, 2004, 160p.

8. Richard Hellie, The Economy and Material Culture of Russia, 1600-1725. University of Chicago Press, 1999, ISBN: 0-226-32649-7

9. Schuyler, Eugene. Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia: A study of Historical Biography. Vol.2, 1889. Reprint. London: Forgotten Books, 2013. 138-139

10. Исторический словарь

URL: diclist.ru/slovar/istoricheskiy/a/povoz.html

11. Словарь налоговых терминов и понятий. –М: НИ РосНОУб 2015.-40 с.

12. Установление полюдья в Древней Руси – История России кратко

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