What is the significance of buying, selling, or bequeathing of a very small vineyard in a region of France historically important for winemaking on the basis of the example of two documents from the collection of Archive of St. Petersburg Institute of History in the program “Autograph of History” reports Cand. Sc. in History Ekaterina Nosova, the researcher at the Scientific and Historical Archive.
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