Из истории культуры, быта и общественной жизни русского провинциального города XIX в. («Записки» жителя г. Слободского И. И. Громозова)

Abstract

An account of a rare source material is given: «The Notes» by I. I. Gromozov (1798—1876), a petty bourgeois, later a merchant of the town of Slobodskoy in the Vyatka region, kept in the collection of the Kirov Regional United Museum-Reserve. The content of the manuscript is diverse and covers the period from the mid-18th to the late 19th centuries, including the historical and genealogical researches by Gromozov himself and later supplements. The appearance of «The Notes» reflects qualitative changes in the social and cultural status of the townsman, the beginning of his emancipation from the town community and the prevailing individualistic orientation. The author of «The Notes» was a selfmade man. First to be published are extracts from an extensive memoir-diary account by I. I. Gromozov «Remarkable cases in the context of the history of life», mostly relating to cultural, domestic, social and socio-psychological areas.