The military apartment fee in Belarus (second half of the 19th – early 20th century)

  • Aliaksandr B. Arlukevich Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, 22 Ažeška Street, Hrodna 230023, Belarus

Abstract

The article reveals the influence of the military housing tax on the socio-economic development of municipal centers and the processes of urbanisation in Belarus in the second half of the 19th – early 20th century. On the basis of a wide range of sources, it is proved that during the period under review, the amount of funds collected by the population in cities and towns with the active mediation of local self-government institutions for the rental of army headquarters, infirmaries, warehouses, officers’ apartments, rent and construction of soldiers’ barracks was comparable to the total income of magistrates and thus deprived them of the necessary reserve for saving and developing public utilities and infrastructure. On this basis, the collection of apartment money can be considered one of the key economic factors that determined the specifics of the development of the Belarusian city during the modernisation period. Until now the collection of funds in the framework of post-conscription in the territory of the Belarusian provinces has not become the subject of special research. Most of the facts presented in the work are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.

Author Biography

Aliaksandr B. Arlukevich, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, 22 Ažeška Street, Hrodna 230023, Belarus

lecturer at the department of political science, faculty of law

References

  1. Arlukevich AB. Cantonment of troops and housing service in Belarus (mid 1850s – mid 1870s). Journal of the Belarusian State University. History. 2021;1:36–58. Russian. DOI: 10.33581/2520-6338-2021-1-36-58.
  2. Lapin VV. [Permanent service in Russia]. In: Shepelev LE, editor. Angliiskaya naberezhnaya, 4. Ezhegodnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo nauchnogo obshchestva istorikov i arkhivistov [4 English Embankment. Yearbook of the Saint Petersburg scientific society of historians and archivists]. Saint Petersburg: Liki Rossii; 2000. p. 135–164. Russian.
Published
2021-08-10
Keywords: quartering of troops, housing service, collection of apartment money, Belarus as part of the Russian Empire, Russian troops
How to Cite
Arlukevich A. B. The military apartment fee in Belarus (second half of the 19th – early 20th century) // Journal of the Belarusian State University. History. 2021. 3. PP. 52-70.