СЕМЕЙНАЯ САГА В РЕГИОНАЛЬНОМ ИЗМЕРЕНИИ: ОБЗОР МОНОГРАФИИ Д.И. ПЕТИНА «ИСТОРИЯ ОМСКОГО РОДА БАТЮШКИНЫХ»

Abstract

This publication is an analytical review of the monograph of the candidate of historical sciences, associate professor Dmitry Igorevich Petin «The History of the Omsk Family of the Batyushkin», published in the city of Omsk in December of 2021. The author of the publication under review has prepared an interesting, fascinating and at the same time strictly scientific study devoted to the reconstruction of the life history of the Batyushkin family, which left a noticeable mark on the history of pre-revolutionary Omsk. The interdisciplinary approach taken by the author as the basis of the monograph highlights this work against the background of the previous historiography of the topic. Thus, within the framework of one study, the methodology of such different scientific areas as historical anthropology and genealogy, local and family history is actively used and successfully combined. According to the author of the review, the book makes a significant contribution to the study of socio-political processes in Russia at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries, since the history of an individual family reveals such topical issues as the relationship between society and government, the fate of a person in the prism of historical anthropology, social human adaptation to new conditions of life. The principles of consistency and determinism made it possible to analyze the publication considered as a phenomenon of science, which has its own structure, at the same time, which is part of the community of historical and local history knowledge. Based on the specifics of the topic, the main scientific method used to write this publication is problematic. The author of the review comes to the conclusion that Dmitry Igorevich Petin presented to the scientific community a full-fledged, high-quality historical and biographical research, which has rich factual material and is focused on a number of applied areas of the humanitarian sphere. The review is addressed to a wide circle of readers, including, first of all, researchers of the history of Russia in the late 19th — early 20th centuries, the Russian Revolution and the formation of Soviet power, historical biography, local history and practical genealogy.