The basis of the public debt of Tsarist Russia was government loans - long-term and perpetual. When concluding a long-term government loan, the law specified the exact date when the entire loan would be repaid: for example, the 1905 loan had to be repaid by 1985; loan 1906 - by April 18, 1956, etc. Sometimes the calendar date for the final repayment of the loan was not specified, but only the period of time during which the loan was to be repaid, for example, “in eighty-two years.” This category contains only government bonds of Tsarist Russia.