The Emergence of Innovations in Agriculture of the Russian Empire (based on Official Documents and Journalistic Materials for 1867)

It is known that the driving force of any development is various innovations and innovations. During the period under study in Russia (a small number of years have passed since the reform of 1861), there is an awareness of the need to pay attention to the development of agriculture, especially issues related to overcoming the crisis in which it was. A certain modernization of Russian agriculture was required, which could partly be facilitated by numerous innovations. The study attempts to determine which innovations could contribute to overcoming the agrarian crisis, as well as to identify the possibility of their implementation in the studied period of time in the agriculture of the Russian Empire. Examples of innovations from different branches of agriculture are selected in the work: forestry, beekeeping, horticulture, cattle breeding, as well as examples of innovations (inventions used in practice) in the field of agricultural machinery and implements are given. Innovations are understood as innovations proposed for the first time for use (approbation), and implemented everywhere (including mandatory ones). As the results showed, many innovations in Russian agriculture have a local nature of implementation: only in certain farms, for example, in the farm of the inventor himself (used only by the developer/inventor himself and some people who have information about such an invention (including through publications in a newspaper) or decide to test it). The identification of innovations that appeared in Russian agriculture in 1867 took place on the basis of a study of published official documents and journalistic materials of that time period.