Review on the collection of documents: Kochetkov V.D. (Ed.) Fortresses of the cities of the Volga region and the Urals at the end of the XVII – beginning of the XVIII century; compliers Kochetkov V.D., Khatskevich M.V., Chibis A.A. Cheboksary: Novoye Vremya, 2022, 204 p.

Abstract

The review analyzes the archaeographic level of work with archival handwritten texts and their content in the collection of documents «Fortresses of the cities of the Volga region and Urals at the end of the XVII – beginning of the XVIII centuries» published in 2022. This publication of sources is the result of extensive painstaking scientific work with the funds of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts by a group of historians including V.D. Kochetkova, M.V. Khatskevich, A.A. Chibis. The cases presented in the collection are kept in the collections of the Armory Chamber. They are of particular importance for researchers studying the period of development of the Volga and Urals regions at the turn of the XVII – XVIII centuries, at the beginning of the era of the transformative activity of Peter the Great. The significance of the publication under consideration lies, first of all, in the fact that the office work of the order of the Kazan Palace, which was in charge of the indicated territories, was practically completely destroyed by fires of the early XVIII century. Up to the present day, we can talk about the so-called “source famine”, noted by most historians dealing with the initial period of development of the European South-East as part of the Russian state. It should be noted that the specialists who prepared this publication have many years of experience in studying and publishing archival materials of the second half of the XVI – XIX centuries. It is also necessary to point out their good professional training and high qualifications demonstrated when working with documents of this fund. Certain errors that can be noted in the prepared publication are not significant. They do not violate the favorable impression formed when reading this collection of documents. In general, we can conclude that its publication is a serious contribution to the further study of the Volga and Urals regions at the end of the XVII and beginning of the XVIII centuries.

Keywords

• publication of sources
• rgada
• order of the kazan palace
• cities of the volga region and the urals
• fortresses and weapons
• decrees of peter i
• late xvii – early xviii century