Church Land Tenure and Land Use

Abstract

The practical life of monks has shown that their economic activity has a corrupting effect on the inner side of their lives. Only a few monasteries succeeded in organically incorporating agricultural and commercial activities into the routine of monastic life. The Orthodox Church in Russia owned three million hectares of land as property. A sign of the state's respect for millions of believing citizens and real material support for the Church was the transfer of land to the ownership of the temple. The land issue had a huge impact on the life of all the people of Russia and on its economy. In Russia, and in other countries of the world that are going through a time of change, the land issue is very important.