History of the Russian customs

The history of the Russian customs begins with the end of the X-th century, with the first mentions of trade duties with which consumer goods on a way of their following from the producer to the consumer were imposed in the Old Russian state. Most ancient of them - It is washed or It is washed, mentioned in Yaroslav the Wise Russian truth (the XI century). It was raised from the merchants passing with goods on overland and waterways of the message. There was a collecting duty on outposts "mytnik" or "mytchik". Collectors it is washed - predecessors of customs officers, and outposts - customs.