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Irkutsk citizens diary memoires

"IRKUTSK CITIZEN DIARY". - irkutsk, manuscript of beginning of XIX c.
92 lists of blue paper.

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"Irkutsk citizen diary", compiled at the beginning of the XIX century, has an important information for specialists about meteorological Irkutsk situation in 1808-1817. Besides a decade nature observation, an author included historical description and everyday occurrence. Considering its contents, the compiler was a priest.

MONASTYRYOV V.A. Irkutsk Civil War History. Irkutsk, the end of 1950-s.
2 school notebooks, 18 and 51 pages.

Vasilii Alekseevich Monastyryov’s diary notes include a description of 1917-1923 events in Irkutsk. The notebooks have information about Civil war participants, first Soviet power activists in Irkutsk names and their part in historical events of that time. There is a detailed description of military activities in Irkutsk. A handwritten text is a big value for the specialists because there are only a few the documents of such kind left.