An episode from the private life of the masters of the Armoury Chamber and Bronnaya Sloboda residents is considered in the context of the history of the court arms workshop. Murder inspired by jealousy becomes the subject of proceedings, which involved several state agencies. The records of investigative actions and the testimonies of various persons provide interesting information about everyday life of craftsmen of the court arms workshop and the inhabitants of Bronnaya Sloboda. We also reconstruct the biography of the main individual involved in the case, Sava Sevastyanov from Mogilev, a master of the Armoury. It is conclded that this person prone to affective actions of a violent nature appeared at the Armoury Chamber as a result of deviation from the principles of personnel policy of the court workshops, which was caused by the consequences of the Moscow plague epidemic of 1654.
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