Pashkov, A. M. THE 200th ANNIVERSARY OF PETER I IN CORRESPONDENCE OF METROPOLITAN HISTORIANS AND PETROZAVODSK LOCAL HISTORIANS. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2022;44(4):28–42. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2022.765


To the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great

THE 200th ANNIVERSARY OF PETER I IN CORRESPONDENCE OF METROPOLITAN HISTORIANS AND PETROZAVODSK LOCAL HISTORIANS

Pashkov
A. M. 		Petrozavodsk State University
Keywords:
Petrine jubilee of 1872
Olonets province (gubernija)
G. G. Grigoriev
A. I. Ivanov
E. V. Barsov
S. M. Solovyov
A. I. Artemyev
P. N. Petrov
V. I. Rozhkov		 Summary: The relevance of the topic is due to the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter I, which is celebrated in 2022. In this regard, it is of great interest to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Peter I in 1872. The purpose of the article is to analyze the holding of Peter’s celebrations in Petrozavodsk in 1872. The article is based on the materials of the “Case of the monument to Peter I in Petrozavodsk”, stored in the Scientific Archive of the Karelian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, involved in scientific circulation for the first time. At the end of 1871 the Governor of the Olonets province (gubernija), G. G. Grigoriev, instructed the secretary of the OlonetsProvincial Statistical Committee and local historian A. I. Ivanov to prepare an essay on the activities of Peter I on the territory of the Olonets province. A. I. Ivanov turned to historians E. V. Barsov, S. M. Solovyov, A. I. Artemyev and V. I. Rozhkov for help in finding sources. The Scientific Archive of the Karelian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences has preserved extensive correspondence on this issue. E. V. Barsov sent several letters, in which he reported information about various sources on this period on the territory of the Olonets province. A. I. Artemyev gave an overview of scientific publications and recommended that P. N. Petrov be involved in the work. V. I. Rozhkov promised to find sources about the Olonets Petrine foundries in the Archive of the Mining Department. The response letter of S. M. Solovyov was not revealed in the documents. Only V. I. Rozhkov and E. V. Barsov provided real help to A. I. Ivanov, and he used their materials and advice in his essay “Emperor Peter the Great and his activities on Olonets”, published in Petrozavodsk in 1873. The attempt of local authorities and local historians to prepare a historical essay on the activities of Peter I in the Olonets region, written on the basis of archival materials and at the level of the requirements of modern historical science, is of great interest. It can be concluded that although this plan was partially implemented, A. I. Ivanov’s essay has been the best scholar work on this problem for 30 years. V. I. Rozhkov and E. V. Barsov became interested in this topic and continued to study the activities of Peter I in the Olonets Region after 1872.



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