Open Access«…Let them be under Our Majesty highest rule»: Documents on Taking the Oath and Entry into the Russian Citizenship of Grodno Jews in 1656
Author(s) -
Dmitry Feldman
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
judaic-slavic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2658-3364
DOI - 10.31168/2658-3364.2019.1.4.1
Subject(s) - oath , lithuanian , citizenship , state (computer science) , majesty , law , sanctions , christianity , political science , classics , history , ancient history , theology , philosophy , politics , linguistics , algorithm , computer science
The article is based on the documents of the Razryadny Department (Razryadny prikaz) from the Russian State Archives of Ancient Acts dealing with the problem of taking the oath to Tsar and Grand Duke Alexey Mikhailovich and entry into the Russian citizenship of Grodno Jews (the Grand Duchy of Lithuania) during the Russian-Polish War 1654–1667.As the documents demonstrate,taking the oath to the Russian monarch by Lithuanian Jews and, accordingly, their entry into the Russian citizenship did not involve their conversion to Christianity.