title: DOCUMENTING FOREIGN COMMUNITIES: CENSUS MATERIALS ON SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN SLOBODA UKRAINE IN THE LATE 18TH CENTURY
abstract: Despite the wide thematic spectrum of scientific studies, the settlement history of Sloboda Ukraine in the 17 th -18 th centuries requires a more thorough study of the source base, first of all, sources of a mass nature.The materials of general audits are one of the main accounting and statistical sources of genealogical and demographic information about the taxable population of the Russian Empire in the 18 th -the first half of the 19 th centuries.Records of people's stories or testimonies abo