ABSTRACT
Repetition of Peter's warning of 19 June (4 July). P. Panin's investigation blames peasant flights on the religious oppression of Old Believers, landowners' abuse of the recruitment levy, the ill treatment of recruits, the power of landowners over their serfs, and the cost of salt and spirits. A. A. Viazemskii tours the Urals, punishing the leaders of the disorders, and investigating the causes of unrest among assigned peasants. Amnesty for pre-1762 fugitives, with permission to settle on state land and six years' immunity from taxes and labour dues. Peasants to bear costs of military expeditions to restore order. Troops cross into Poland and recover 2,000 serfs. Twenty-seven serf risings. lark Cossack mutiny crushed by General Traubenberg. The Danubian Army infects Moscow with the plague.
400-500 plague deaths per day in Moscow. Moscow plague riots, after Archbishop Ambrosius removes a miracle-working icon from a city gate to prevent cross-infection among crowds gathering there. G. G. Or16v burns houses, disinfects, etc., to control the plague. Plague ends in December. Total dead around 200,000.
