Vologda Merchant Gavriil (Gavrila) Fetiev: An Experiment of Personal Archaeography (About the Book by Marina Cherkasova). Review of Kupets G.M. Fetiev: issledovanie i arkhiv [Merchant G.M. Fetiev: Research and Archive] by M.S. Cherkasova (Vologda: Drevnosti Severa, 2020)

Abstract

The study under review is the first attempt of a systematic presentation of Gavriil (Gavrila) Fetiev’s biography, the largest Vologda merchant of the 17th century and a consolidated publication of documentary materials related to his trading and official activities. It summarizes almost twenty years of work of the author, Doctor of Historical Sciences, prominent Russian medievalist Marina S. Cherkasova.

Keywords

• marina s. cherkasova
• merchant g.m. fetiev
• biography
• archive
• reconstruction
• re-enactment
• study of scroll sources