Familia Tuduri: negustori ieşeni şi ctitoriile lor (secolul al XVIII-lea)
Tuduri family: Merchants of Iasi and their foundations (18th century)

Summary/Abstract: This research is a development of a previous one, in which I foresaw the possibility of enlarging genealogical perspective and a new way of entering the world of merchants of Iasi from the 17th and 18th century. Since then I noted that Coste Papafil, an active character in the political and economic life of Iasi from the second half of the 18th century, who got related, through marriage to a daughter of merchant Lupaşco Tuduri, with an old family of grocery merchants, whose first member can be identified in the second half of the 17th century. If when I insisted on Coste Papafil we focused on the merchants who brought to Moldova goods from the fair in Liepzig, from Central Europe, whose type of merchandise better reflects the economic repositioning that will take place in the second half of the 18th century, this time we will bring forward the grocery merchants who brought goods from the Orient. On first impression, the economic environment outlined at the beginning of the study, characterized by an emphasis on the inclusion of this area in the Ottoman economic system, seems to have been favorable to some categories of merchants specialized in trading oriental goods among them finding the grocers.Regarding the documentary sources used, since these are merchants of Iasi, we used the ten volumes of documents on the history of Iaşi published by Ioan Caproşu. Then, to these documents were added a number of unedited documents, which are kept in the funds Documents and Mitropolia Moldovei from the Archives of Iasi and also several acts regarding Documents from the Romanian Academy Library in Bucharest.

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