The collection includes the diplomas of the archive of the economically largest and politically very influential spiritual corporation - the Trinity-Sergius Monastery .. Particular interest in the acts of this collection is caused by insufficient study of the socio-economic history of Russia in the XVI century. Documents provide abundant material on the economic and social situation of the peasantry, the central and local state apparatus, the forms of feudal land ownership, the types and norms of feudal rent, the level of development and technology of agriculture. Other collections of acts on the history of Russia XIV-XVI centuries . Acts of feudal land ownership and economy of the XIV-XVI centuries . Part 1. Acts of Feudal Land Ownership and Farming . Part 2 . Acts of Feudal Land Ownership and Farming . Part 3 .