Diaries of the Smolensk ethnographer Vasily Ivanovich Grachev
(
Serie Library of the journal “Smolensk Krai”
)
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The published diaries of the famous Smolensk local historian, museum worker, teacher, journalist Vasily Ivanovich Grachev are unique collection of information about Smolensk and its inhabitants from the 1860s to the early 1930s. On the one hand, this is a detailed chronicle of city life, both the tsarist and Soviet eras, on the other, an autobiography and milestones in the life of V.I. Gracheva, on the third, is a portrait of a long period of time in the destinies of country, full of the most important historical events. This book publishes three major diaries of V.I. Grachev consolidated, covering his entire life, during the First World War and for 1931.
