Abstract:
The subject of the research is the sailor's guild, which was founded in Bessarabia in the nineteenth century. The purpose of the article is to present the evolution of Moldovan craftsmen in the 19th century to the general and to reveal the process of establishing the guilds' guilds in Bessarabia to demonstrate their native elements, highlighting the peculiarities of the operation of this guild. The source of analysis is the regulation of the Basarabian sailors' guild guild, identified in the MNA. The study analyzes in detail every article of this regulation to demonstrate the native elements of this medieval institution in the conditions of economic and social modernization of these regions of the Russian Empire.