Russkaya Starina

9-16

Authors: Andrey V. Dyukarev

The article deals with the complex of plots and images of the military history of the Kuban Cossacks, reflected in the memorial practice of the 19th – early 21th centuries. The example of military duty and sacrifice of Cossack detachments under the command of colonel Tikhovsky, sotniks Grechishkin and Gorbatko during the Caucasian War shows the tradition of the formation of the historical memory in the pre-revolutionary period. Revolutionary events and the Civil War did not allow the episodes of the Russian-Japanese and World War I to be integrated into the system of commemoration of the heroic past. During the Soviet period, the memorial practice reflected the exploits of the Cossacks of the 17th Cavalry, and then the 4th Guards Cavalry Corps during the Great Patriotic War. The period of the late 20th – early 21th centuries is characterized by an appeal to the plots of military exploits of all historical periods, these plots are integrated into the system of the memory of the Kuban Cossacks.

29-35

Authors: Sergei G. Nekrasov

The article deals with the defensive battles for Rostov-on-Don on July 23–25, 1942 in the context of their mention in the order of the People’s Commissar of Defense of the USSR No. 227 of July 28, 1942. The Battle of Rostov-on-Don in July 1942 is practically not disclosed in Soviet, Russian and foreign historiography. Meanwhile, in the history of the Great Patriotic War, these actions played an important strategic role. Despite significant losses, they made it possible to carry out an organized withdrawal of the formations and units of the Southern Front to the new defensive lines. Using as an example of one specific formation – the 31st Stalingrad Rifle Division – the article shows that the personnel of such formations fought heroically and skillfully, as far as the operational-strategic situation allowed. The article is based on documents from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

50-53

Authors: Evgeny F. Krinko

The history of the Russian Orthodox Church is one of the leading trends in Contemporary Russian historiography. In 2020-2021 have been published fundamental monographs on the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Rostov-on-Don. Previously, these issues were not the subject of special study. The author is one of the leading specialists in the history of Orthodoxy on the Don, A.V. Shadrina. The study is based on a significant set of sources, including documents from 176 files from 19 funds of 10 archives. The first book was devoted to the history of construction and the subsequent difficult fate of the temple in the 19th–21st centuries. In the second monograph, the author examines the restoration, shrines, church activities and the consecration of the cathedral after the restoration.