title: "Daily notes of Yegor Andreevich Kovrigin": analysis of a historical source
abstract: Introduction. Diary manuscripts in historical scholarship are a curious material, which in most cases is a unique testimony of the era. Numerous such sources have been discovered and published on the Russian history of the 19th century. It was mainly the nobility and intellectuals who had the opportunity to keep diaries. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries they were joined by merchants. Materials and methods. The rarest phenomenon remains the diaries of city dwellers, in particular those 
journal: History Facts and Symbols