Alekseeva, L. V. THE CASE OF THE NOBILITY FAMILY TREE AS THE SOURCE FOR THE BIOGRAPHY OF NIKOLAY SHAKHOV, THE ANONYMOUS AUTHOR OF THE JOURNAL “GRAZHDANIN” // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2020. Vol. 42. No 2. P. 23–31. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2020.446


Historiography, source studies, methods of historical research

THE CASE OF THE NOBILITY FAMILY TREE AS THE SOURCE FOR THE BIOGRAPHY OF NIKOLAY SHAKHOV, THE ANONYMOUS AUTHOR OF THE JOURNAL “GRAZHDANIN”

Alekseeva
L. V. 		Petrozavodsk State University
Keywords:
the Russian State Historical Archive
Nikolay Shakhov
correspondent of Fedor Dostoevsky
daily “Grazhdanin”
anonymous author
nobility family tree
the Case of the Nobility family tree
biography
biography studies (biografika)		 Summary: The article reflects one of the stages of the research of attribution of the work of the author published in the weekly “Grazhdanin” (No. 41, 1873) and signed by the pseudonym “X.”. Earlier it was established that the anonymous author was one of the F. M. Dostoevsky’s correspondents, a graduate of 1871 of the 3rd Alexandrovsk Military School in Moscow, the officer of the 1st Leib-Grenader of the Ekaterinoslav Regiment of His Majesty. He was Nikolay Aleksandrovich Shakhov. There aren’t his name and biography in the existing reference literature and other printed sources. The purpose of this work is establish some facts of his biography. The modern state of historical science, one of the approaches of which is to understand history through the prism of the human person, his biography, cause the relevance of this research. On the basis of the established facts, as a result of archival searches in the Russian State Historical Archive (RSHA), the Case of the Nobility family tree of the Shakhovs Genus containing information about the person of Nikolay Shakhov was revealed. The documents collected in the Case allowed not only to clarify the information received earlier about Shakhov, but also to draw up his brief biography and establish his consanguinity with a famous statesman of the 19th century, Alexander Nikolayevich Shakhov, who was the father of Nikolay. The small in volume case opens up opportunities for further research for new facts of the biography of N. Shakhov, its reconstruction, establishing his family relation and environment and in the future – to compile as much as possible the family tree of the genus Shakhovs.



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