Scribe books took into account the entire military and taxable population of the principalities that were part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the second Russian state in Eastern Europe. The lists were compiled by the headman Pinsky in 1552-1555. This was the time when Lithuania had not yet clashed in the struggle for its lands with the Moscow beast - Ivan the Terrible. The book gives a lot of information to historians who study the life and way of life in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. A lot of interesting factual material.