"On the River Narova at the lower Skamya [possibly ‘shoal’], there is a courtyard of the Narova fish merchants and of tax farmers of the Tsar and the Grand Duke, and there is a hut of 3 sazhens [6 meters], and an inner porch of 3 sazhens and a barn of 3 sazhens, and there is a kitchen of one and a half sazhen, and next to the courtyard on one side there is a picket fence with a gate. And there is space below the yard of 10 sazhens, and it is 6 sazhens across, and in front of the yard there is 5 sazhens of space to the moorings with a road, and along the fence next to the yard there are the manorial lands of village Kokolki, with one field of 16 sazhens. Residents of that Skamya are feudal judges of Pskov, and opposite of the courtyard at the pier fishermen and tax farmers are stationed. And in the cadaster manuscript by clerk Ivan Andreyev the courtyard is priced at two and a half rubles."
/From cadasters/
SKAMYA
"They drag 2 seines, and there 2 tonyas at Storozhinets, 2 forest pools, Lake Shavoroda, lake by the settlement, river Kunest’ up to Kamensky brook on both banks, and river Krokol up to Zakharovo, and river Torokhovka, and Meleshev brook, and brook Baranets at the mouth of the Torokhovka; Kunya bays are fished by manorial serfs, and yeomen, and monks – by four seines, and paying 9 rubles of tax for the entire Kunya bay."
/From cadasters/
STOROZHINETS
"There is a catch in the Peipsi Lake by Nicholas parish of the Kozhin Monastery near Rudnitsa, and it is fished by peasants of Kozhin Monastery’s Nicholas parish of Rudnitsa – Mikifor Kuzmin, Luchko Ovseev, Kirill Ovseev, Mikifor Mikhaylov, Martemyan Chukhno and Mikhail Vlasyev. They fish on the Peipsi Lake starting Shrovetide to St. Peter’s Day with two seines, nets, hoops, trawl lines and purse seines; and from St. Peter’s Day through the summer and in the fall they fish by two seines, nets and hoops; and in the winter they go offshore with the first ice and all until the flood, and use the same seines and rods. They give every fifth fish to Narova fishmongers or tax farmers as tax."
/From cadasters/
RUDNITSA
This isad is known from cadaster 355 of 1585-1587, published in volume 5 of the collection of the Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice in 1913.
"Isad Lipnoy by the Peipsi Lake, on the island between Zalakhtovye and the basswoods of the Big and Peipsi Lakes, across from the yeomen villages of the Tsar and Grand Duke, the former estate of Prince Vladimir of the Gagarins … courtyards of the Tsar and Grand Duke: of Foma Fedotov, Gavrila Konanov, Potash Manuylov, Volodya Stepanov, and Konan Manuylov; an abandoned place of St. Nicholas of the Stone Walls, and at the same isad a parish of the Intercession Monastery of the Duke’s Lakes, there court’s man Denis Mul’ lives … and, as Pskov clerks’ Sulmen’ Bulgakov and Ivan Ogramakov cadasters go, what belonged to Mikita … a seine and a half of the catch was of the Tsar and Grand Duke, and half of the Intercession Monastery of the Duke’s Lakes and of St. Nicholas of the Izborsk Street in the Stone Walls, and in that half, 2 thirds were of the Intercession Monastery, and a third to St. Nicholas was free of tax. And now that seine and a half is in the tax burden of Ivan the Peasant Vysheslavtsev’s Isac Utka ща Mikita Lobkov’s, residing in Cherma Bay."
LIPNOY
PODOLESHYE
"Fishermen of Podoleshye: Ivan of the parish, Rodtvon of the parish, Yushko Ostratov, Minka the Smith, and 12 vacant spots of the Intercession in the Duke’s Lakes, and peasants of St. Yegor parish from Mda; they fish in the Big and Peipsi Lakes come spring through summer by four seines, nets, hoops and trawl lines; and in the winter offshore, as well as in flood waters – by seines, nets, hoops, trawl lines and rods. These fishermen pay off their catches in the summer to Narova mongers and tax farmers – those of the Narva Board – every sixth fish and 2 Moscow silver coins of business fee, and from the offshore winter fishing they pay every tenth fish. Same fishermen have two cabins on the lake’s waterfront, and live there in the winter and fall."
/From cadasters/
PODOLESHYE
This isad is known from cadaster 355 of 1585-1587, published in volume 5 of the collection of the Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice in 1913.
"There are isad courtyards on the isle of Gorodets in the parish land of the Archangels’ Church in Kobylye, belonging to: Andrei Ovdeev, Isaac Yakovlev, Afonasy Yakovlev, and 3 vacancies. The farmland of the fishermen is poor… Those fishermen pay the Archangel’s Church their land duty of 10 Moscow silver coins per yard, and every fourth rick from harvest. They fish by the isle of Gorodets in the waters of the Tsar and Grand Duke in the Big and Peipsi Lakes, from Shrovetide to St. Peter’s Day, by two seines, nets, hoops, trawl lines, purse nets and other traps, and from St. Peter’s Day and through the summer and in the fall, by trawl traps, narrow-meshed seines, nets, and trawl lines, and in the winter, they fish from the first ice and through the winter until the floods by two seines and rods. And they pay mongers and tax farmers of Narova every fifth fish, and 2 coins of business fee."
GORODETS
"There is the catch near Samolva, in the Samolovka River and the Great and Peipsi Lakes, from Rudnaya Bay of Peipus upstream till Dubrovka… That catch, the river and lakes, is fished by peasants of St. Nicholas Monastery from Samolva – Tikhon Petrov, Vasily Ivanov, Lukyan Sidorov, Klim Timofeyev – with one seine, purse nets, proper nets, fish spears and drag lines, and do that from Shrovetide until St. Peter’s Day, and from that day and through the summer and fall they fish with drag traps, nets and hoops, and in the winter – with trawl traps and creels, yielding every fourth fish to the monastery."
/From cadasters/
SAMOLVA
This isad is known from cadaster 355 of 1585-1587, published in volume 5 of the collection of the Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice in 1913.
"Isad Pnyov of the Tsar and Grand Duke on the manorial land of Bogdan Zabelin, has fishermen non-arable courtyards: those of Grigory Klimov, Mosey, Mikula and 2 vacant yards. Those fishermen pay the landlord the land duty of one altyn per yard, and a basket of fish. Those fishermen fish in the deep-water catch of the Tsar and Grand Duke, in the Great and Peipsi Lakes spring through summer through fall with nets, hoops, trawl lines and rods, and in the winter with hoops and rods, paying every fifth fish as tax to the Narova mongers or tax farmers."
PNYOV
"From Shrovetide until St. Peter’s Day, they fished with one seine, purse nets, proper nets, hoops, trawl lines, rods and fish spears, and in the fall – with trawl lines and nets. They used to pay the land duty and the catch tax of 5 rubles and 4 grivnas. But now the isad is fished by Stepan Ivanov, son of Kosokh, Vorontsov’s serf, who lives in the village of Dub."
/From cadasters/
SCHEDROVO
This isad is known from cadaster 355 of 1585-1587, published in volume 5 of the collection of the Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice in 1913.
"Isad Lipno above the Pskov Lake in the Elizarovo land by the village of Lipno … fishes in the Pskov Lake and one bank in the River Lipenka, and the Ostrozhka inflowing into the Lipka, from Shrovetide until St. Peter’s Day, with one seine, purse nets, proper nets, hoops, trawl lines and rods, and in the fall until the first ice – with nets, hoops and trawl lines. The fishermen are from Elizarovo, and they pay the land duty and catch tax of one ruble and 30 altyns per yard."
LIPNO
This isad is known from cadaster 355 of 1585-1587, published in volume 5 of the collection of the Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice in 1913.
The archeological dig revealed a settlement and ceramics of 15-18th centuries.
"The isad has non-arable yards, with fishermen living there: Olis Stepanov, Ersh Sidorov… fishing in the Pskov Lake, in the Rivers Meshokol’ and Kopanitsa, from Shrovetide until St. Peter’s Day, with purse nets, proper nets, hoops, trawl lines, rods and fish spears, and on from that day through the summer an in the fall – with three seines, nets, hoops and trawl lines, and from the first ice and through the winter until floods they fish in deep water with the three seines and rods. They pay 6 rubles and 20 altyns."
MESHOKOL’
"Isad is on the Lesser Ludvitsa, with fishermen Kuz’ma Timofeyev, Osip Stepanov, Ortyusha Yakovlev, Yefim living there… across from their isad on the Lesser Ludvitsa in the spring they make a kol, and those fishermen fish in the catch of the Lesser Ludvitsa – both banks source to mouth, to the Greater Ludva and to the Terebeshe mouth, and in the Pskov and Great Lakes up to Nemalovo waters and to Negota floats, together with Terebeshe and Ludva fishermen with one seine, and in the mouths of Ludva and Terebeshe. They fish from Shrovetide until St. Peter’s Day with one seine, nets, trawl lines, purses, rods, fish spears and other traps, and from that day on in the summer and in the fall they fish by drag nets, finer seines and proper nets, and in the winter they fish from the first ice until the floods with hauls and creels; three rubles per year of tax."
"The isad on the Greater Ludvitsa by the kol – a picket dam – across the Ludva makes a big kol, and seines there in the spring" – possibly, the modern village of Isadovschina.
/From cadasters/
ISADOVSCHINA
"In Zhidilov Bor there is the common catch of monasteries and churches in the River Borovna up to the mouth of the Borovenka, in the Pskov Lake and the River Kripanka; they fish with a seine, purse nets, proper nets, hoops and other traps… half of that seine is of the Zapskovye Resurrection Monastery in Pskov, the old Ascension Monastery, St. Kuz’ma and Demyan on the Rattling Hill, St. Ilia of Krivovichi, St. Peter and Paul of the Middle Town, St. Kuz’ma and Demyan from Zapskovye, and Archangel Michael of the Middle Town; and the other half of the seine and nets of the Tsar and Grand Duke is a tax with Zaitsev Ivan."
/From cadasters/
ZHIDILOV BOR
According to cadasters, in the territory of Pskov and in the area of the Velikaya the following catches are known: "in Pskov at the Gates", "below St. Nicholas Monastery", "below St. John", "from St. John to St. Stephan’s Monastery on both sides of the Velikaya, fishing with seines, dragging towards the land of St. Stephan’s Monastery", "at Stephan’s Meadow", in Pskov "below the wall from the Middle Town and the tower to the floating bridge … fish catches turning in ablets, roaches and ides", "from the floating bridge to St. John’s Stairs" – i.e. the river in the city is split into fixed zones.
PSKOV