Old landowners in the service and at home. From the family chronicle of Andrei Timofeevich Bolotov

Andrei Timofeevich Bolotov is one of the first Russian scientists -encyclopedists, his main work is the famous "notes", the language, heroes and images of which are still perceived by the reader without difficulty, but historical realities require clarification. Their decryption at the end of the 19th century was engaged in Ekaterina Nikolaevna Shchepkina (1854-1938)-a modest St. Petersburg historian-research historian and a magnificent popularizer of historical science. Taking advantage of the small instructions of Bolotov himself, she picked up various kinds of historical documents according to archives, most often inaccessible to him, or even completely unfamiliar, with whom she complemented the story of Andrei Timofeevich, and at the same time she retelling and commented on the extensive text of the "Notes".
Schepkina, first of all, brought documentary clarity to the description of a number of family events in the life of the swamps, about which Andrei Timofeevich himself had a very vague idea, based mainly on birth legends, while Shchepkina found archival documents, partly inaccessible to our modern researchers . So the book Old landowners in the service and at home arose