[2] When writing applications (petitions) to orders, the townspeople and Peasants were written not as Kholops, but as "slaves and orphans".
[2] The trade and craft population of cities (podols, posads, hundreds) created their own territorial and professional associations (organizations of Artisans, such as workshops).
Each black hundred made up a self-governing society with elected heads and Sotniks.
[3] On the basis of property (like all estates of the Russian state), the townspeople were divided into the best, middle and young people.
Favorite judges dealt with property matters between the townspeople, except for criminal cases.
Walking people began to open shops, barns, cellars in the estates, without paying taxes.
[4] The memory of the estate is preserved in the toponymy of some cities of Russia, where it is immortalized in the names of the streets: