Concession Export Trade of Foreign Merchants during the Reign of Peter the Great

The article is devoted to the study of participation Western European merchants in concession export trade Russia reign Peter I. Concession as a way solving financial problems was often used and customs policy 17th–18th centuries. Having ascended throne, I continued actively use form foreign country. Stateowned goods were transferred concession: caviar, rhubarb, flax, bristles, sheep wool, timber, forest chemical products. mainly interest English Dutch merchants, who had large turnover established themselves reliable business partners government tsar personally, both commercial diplomatic affairs. state concessions not only solution issues but also means carry out wartime conditions, obtain profitable orders abroad, organize sale state-owned goods, which always high quality, attract development port Saint Petersburg, encourage entrepreneurs provided services Russian government.