THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRADING ACTIVITIES BURGHERS IN THE PROVINCIAL TOWNS OF SOUTHWEST SIBERIA IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY

The article analyzes the trading activity of the middle class in the provincial cities of Tomsk province of the Russian Empire, the pre-reform period. The authors touched on issues such as a variety of commercial activities in the bourgeois class, a variety of freight train, its quality, profitability.