The article discusses the organization and activities of special credit institutions - grain pawnshops, which functioned at the turn of the ХХ- th century in the Russian Empire. In fact, the functions of a "bread pawnshop" were performed by elevators. The main goal of their activities was to relieve the peasant from the need to sell bread at a low price in autumn to pay annual taxes.
Keywords: grain pawnshop, usurious loan, commodity loan, pawnshop, loan secured by bread (grain), zemstvos, rural producers.
Artemyeva, Victoria Stanislavovna "Grain Pawnshops as a Form of Commodity Credit at the End of the XIX-th - Beginning of the XX-th Century" Agrarian History, Number 10, 2022 P. 78 - 85. doi: 10.52270/27132447_2022_10_78