Dochodowość ekonomii królewskich w Wielkim Księstwie Litewskim w drugiej połowie XVII wieku
The profitability of royal economies in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the second half of the seventeenth century

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the monarch’s income from the royal estates of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Šiauliai, Alytus, Grodno, Brest, Kobrin, and Mogilev. They are presented based on rent recorded in the lease contracts from the second half of the seventeenth century. The text also describes a system of tenant control, the so-called revision. The second part of the article deals with damages to estates and forestry in the Grodno region caused by the wars with Moscow and Sweden, which significantly reduced the Profitability of the Lithuanian “table estates”.

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