XIX century studies on the settlement of the Saratov Volga region

Abstract

Since the middle of the 19th century, Russian historians paid great attention to the settlement of the Russian peasantry. Saratov local history experts took the study of this process in the Lower Volga region as one of their main tasks in the last decades of the 19th century. Modern historiography has not noted the importance of their works on the problem of colonization. The content of the papers by the SSAC members and the unpublished monograph by A. N. Minh shows that local historians successfully dealt with the problem, the development of which was carried out in the works of university historians.

Keywords

• colonization
• saratov statistical committee
• saratov scientific archival commission
• g. i. peretyatkovich
• oral sources
• general land survey
• sentry villages