The article presents a historical and linguistic analysis of the first documents, which marked the beginning of the zemstvo movement against the Poles and Lithuanians who occupied Moscow. The documents were sent from town to town to organize a national militia near Moscow in the early 1611. The main documents, the Smolensk Letter and the Letter of Moscow residents, are considered as an integral part of the Solikamsk archive with the whole complex of Solikamsk papers. We have refined the dating and attribution of the documents; we have also performed for the first time an analysis of the data cards for these documents and a linguistic analysis of the texts. The zemstvo movement had begun simultaneously in Ryazan and Nizhni Novgorod not long before the letters reached these cities. The letters became the main written arguments for the Muscovite State cities in the Volga region, Zamoskovie, North and Siberia. In terms of genre, these are not business letters in their pure form, but skillfully written, emotional documents calling for action. They feature many rhetorical devices and have a rich vocabulary.
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