Gardarika

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Authors: Aleksandr A. Cherkasov

The article pays attention to one of the representatives of the Cherkasov family from Kereti – a storyteller, a participant of the Second World War – Ivan Ivanovich Cherkasov (1902–1969). This work is the first attempt to summarize the available information and write a biographical work about this man. Various archival materials and materials of personal origin were used as sources. In methodological terms, the descriptive method is widely used in the work, which allowed us to consider the information presented in fragments to restore the biographical picture of the life of Ivan Ivanovich Cherkasov. Besides this, a retrospective method was used, thanks to which we were able to present the events in their chronological sequence. In conclusion, the author states that Ivan Ivanovich Cherkasov (1902–1969) is a man with a rather unique destiny. He started his career at a logging plant in Kereti, but before the war he moved to work in the fish supervision. In the pre-war period, he became one of the little-known White Sea storytellers (the author of the fairy tale “About the merchant Savin”). Ivan Ivanovich enters the war as an elderly man, at the age of 39, and goes through it almost from the very beginning (August 1941) until the last day. He serves in combat units, mainly as a rifleman. The uniqueness of his fate lies in the fact that, having received 5 wounds at different times, he remains in the ranks. There were only 11 thousand such privates for the entire Red Army during the war! After the war, Ivan Ivanovich Cherkasov returned to service in the fish supervision, where he continued to work almost until his death. In the Cherkasov (Keretsky) family, Ivan Ivanovich Cherkasov founded the 9th (Ivanovo generation). He had six children, five of whom subsequently produced significant offspring.

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Authors: Tatiana Yu. Sedegova

In the XXI century there was an obvious interest of scientists to the study of the roleplaying movement. However, the history of the emergence and development of role-playing movement in the regions of Russia has not been studied in the works of Russian scientists. The Rostov region is no exception here. Therefore, the article analyzes the formation of the movement in the region. The research is based on interviews with the role-players and materials from the Rostov role community (first of all, on articles in the journal of the Rostov role-playing club «Menhir»). The author shows that it was in 1995–2002 role-playing movement in the Rostov region went through a period of formation. During this time, many forms of interaction in live action role-playing games began to be practiced and gained popularity. The first unions of role-players arose, informal units within the movement and permanent workshop groups were formed.