Kratkoe Soderzhanie 17 Paragrafa Istoriia Rossii 7 Klass D.d Danilov [OFFICIAL]

The century began with deep economic devastation. Many central and western regions were ruined by foreign intervention and internal conflict. The state's primary goal was to refill the treasury and find "sources of economic revival" to restore the country's stability.

Policies designed to encourage domestic production and limit imports.

Large annual fairs became the centers of national trade, such as the Makaryev Fair near Nizhny Novgorod.

Individual craftsmanship evolved into "small-scale commodity production," where artisans began making goods specifically for sale at the market rather than just for custom orders.

Russia traded actively with the West through Arkhangelsk and with the East through Astrakhan.