History and Historians in the Context of the Time

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Authors: Aleksandr А. Cherkasov

The article makes the first attempt to compile an ancestral calendar of Cherkasovs (Keretskys). There were used as materials the archival documents from the central and regional archives of the Russian Federation. Among the central ones, it should be noted the Russian State Archives of Ancient Documents (Moscow, Russian Federation), and among the regional ones – the State Archives of the Arkhangelsk Region (Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation) and the National Archives of the Republic of Karelia (Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation). In methodological terms, the method of content analysis was widely used, which made it possible to isolate the necessary information from the array of archival data. Thanks to this, the male representatives who were born were identified, as well as the first female representatives mentioned, whose exact date of birth was known. In conclusion, the author states that when creating the ancestral calendar, three groups of memorial dates were identified: 1) anniversary years (a special date that applies to the whole year and is timed to the year of birth of one of the earliest representatives of the genus); 2) memorial days (dates timed to tragic events. For example, political repression); 3) annual dates (dates with a known day of the event).