Региональная история и краеведение

The article examines the violent forms of the agrarian movement of late Imperial Russia as the most dangerous and destructive ways of peasant protest in socio-political, legal and economic terms. Using the example of the Saratov province, the author identifies the causes, motivations and delinquent methods of expressing various illegal excesses in the peasant environment. The main content of the study is the analysis of violent forms of the agrarian movement in Russia at the beginning of the XX century, as varieties of agrarian terror.

The article is devoted to one of the least studied issues in the field of socio-economic practices of the zemstvo: attempts to resolve the food issue from the creation of the Saratov zemstvo to the adoption of the Temporary Rules on the Food Issue in 1900. The study analyzes the powers of the zemstvo in organizing the grain supply system; activities carried out by the bodies of zemstvo self-government in “peacetime” and during the period of crop failures (famines of 1879 and 1891).

The archival materials resulted in article, are a good illustration of the relation to book culture and a library science of provincial clergy of first half of XIX-th century. The analysis of unique documents, many of which are published for the first time, allows to expand representations about level of erudition of clergy and private libraries on an example of the Saratov diocese.

In article the daily life of the Saratov’s citizens in period of Khrushchev’s and Brezhnev’s reforms was analyzed. Materials on the data of the archives, periodical press, collections and an interview were prepared.

The article analyses, on the base of normative documents, archives files, statistics, periodical, the process of electrification of agriculture of the state and particular the Volga region in the second part of XX century. The work shows the increasing of the level of complex electromechanization of industrial processes. Electro-technical reequipping of agricultural industry developed rather intensively in the researching period and largely promoted the liquidation of manual labour.

The author of this article attracts readers’ attention to a life of one of the little-known figures of the Time of Troubles who was in the epicenter of events related to the struggle of the new government of Michael Romanov against the Swedish and Polish interventionists. This personality is Andrey Fyodorovich Palitsin. The tangled chronology of events concluding the period of Troubles in 1613–1614 is described in detail.

This article is an original research at regional level of the «living conditions» covering set of such indicators, as a floor space on the person, degree of comfort of houses, their condition, security municipal conveniences. 

The article deals with the process of establishing preschool educational institutions in Kazan Educational Division in the beginning of the 20th century. The author examines such issues as different types of preschool institutions, supervising authorities, establishment procedures. The emphasis is also made on curricula and lessons.

In the fund of the nobility deputy assembly of the State archives of the Saratov region there is a collection of 21 volumes of the unique documents, known as the Nobility family register books of the Saratov province (1787–1861). Their analysis brings us to the conclusions concerning the structure of the noble society of the Saratov province as a whole. The documents also give the opportunity to clarify many private issues on history of the concrete representatives of the hereditary nobility of the Saratov province.

The article examines the changes in the national composition of Saratov province in the first half of the 1920s based on the materials of the All-Russian Census of 1920, the All-Union Urban Census of 1923 and the first All-Union Population Census of 1926. The factors influencing the evolution of the national structure of the region are being studied. The conclusion is made about the formation in the main features of the ethnic map of the Saratov region.