Consequences of Novgorod's Integration into Moscow in the 1490s

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1. 1478–1484Veliky Novgorod · NovgorodIn 1478 Ivan III abolished the veche, seized the Liberty Bell, and installed governors; from the 1480s he arrested the archbishop, exiled pro-Lithuanian boyars and merchants, and confiscated the lands of six major monasteries and the bishopric, laying the foundation for subsequent land redistribution.
2. 1484–1499Novgorod lands · NovgorodMoscow granted confiscated lands to service nobility (pomestie) from the central regions, registering taxes by the old cadasters; by the 1490s about 87% of land had changed hands, thousands of Novgorod families were deported to Moscow, Vologda, and elsewhere, and local autonomous elites were replaced by Moscow nobles.
3. 1490–1500Novgorod commercial district and countryside · NovgorodIn 1494 Moscow closed the Novgorod Hanseatic Kontor, and Baltic trade contracted; on pomestye estates tenants fled and grain output declined, as the traditional commercial republic's economy transformed into service-estate agriculture, with Moscow becoming the political and economic center of all Rus'.