ABSTRACT
In the first decades of the seventeenth century, there were several circumstances that led to housing market conflicts between native residents of Moscow and immigrants to the city. Economic aspects of foreigner-owned residences in the city caused rising tensions that later escalated into religious and political confrontations. These conflicts were resolved in various ways. This chapter focuses on foreigners’ activities on Moscow’s housing market and on the arguments used by conflicting parties in the decades before the resettlement of foreigners to the new suburb in 1652. It also examines the links between housing market disputes and the restrictions on foreign residents implemented by the Muscovite authorities in the 1640s and early 1650s.
