Imports

There are two obvious takeaways from this pairing. First, imported goods played a marginal role at internal markets in the late 18th century. This is not terribly surprising. Second, this is another case in which the top-down view suggests a very different geographical narrative - the centrality of the provinces of Malorossiia (again, I am reproduing the vocabulary of my sources here!) - than that proposed by the regional view, which points out that while they played little role in the macro-level market flows, imported goods were prominent at the markets of the Southwest, Southeast, and Northern Urals.