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Abstract. In the following edition the conclusion of the manuscript from the private archives of the historian I.P. Kozlovski is being published. “The Chronicles” reconstructs the scientist’s life at times of his last activity period that encompasses the events in 1932–1941 that was undefined by the other sources. “The Chronicles” gives a picture of a daily routine of I.P. Kozlovsky and his family in 1930-s, after his exile from Rostov to Kozlov. The chronicle documents render scientist’s difficult financial situation as well as his futile attempts to get a job at educational establishments of Orenburg, Tambov, Saransk, Baku, Chelyabinsk and to, finally, publish the work of his life “The Chronology of the USSR nations”. Disasters followed the scientist. Among the greatest trial of life, there were the demolition of the library together with his perennial treatise on historiography, the deaths of daughter Alexandra and brother Eugene. The last pages of the manuscript narrate the beginning of the Great Patriotic War that caught the historian in Kazakhstan, where he, at least, got a job at the Pedagogical Institute of Uralsk. There he spent the last four years of his lifetime (1938–1942) together with wife and daughter Maria Ivanovna. In 1941 Kozlovsky’s daughter Larisa, with two granddaughters, was evacuated from besieged Leningrad. Ivan Pavlovich and his wife Evdokia Ivanovna practically died starving while giving the last loaf of bread to their little granddaughters. “The Chronicles” was written a year before the death of I.P. Kozlovsky. The last notes in “The Chronicles” date back to November 1941. The historian carefully followed the news from the frontline and fixed them in “The Chronicles”.
Keywords: Ivan Pavlovich Kozlovsky, professor, historian, chronicle, reference, Kozlov, Uralsk, the Great Patriotic War.