title: Archival Research on the Local and Family History: The City of Omsk City and New Research of Its Past
abstract: The article is a review of the monograph “The history of the Batyushkins, an Omsk family” by the Omsk historian Dmitry I. Petin. The book was published in Omsk in 2021. Some interesting and important pages of the regional history and culture of the 19th–20th centuries are associated with the Batyushkin family and the so-called Batyushkin’s House (also known as Kolchak’s House). Using the example of the life of this family’s head, Kapiton Batyushkin, the author shows how “social elevator” operate
journal: Herald of an Archivist