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Abstract. This paper is dedicated to the dramatic plight of the repressed citizen of Russia. This paper is motivated by O.A. Akulich’s book “Letters from Tulun (Stalin-era Siberia through the eyes of an exile nobleman)”. Basing on the archive documents, genealogical schemes and literary sources the author examines the life of the hereditary nobleman, old teacher Dmitry Dmitrievich Pazukhinin. The historical-biographical method was applied to the process of research. A significant part of his life he spent in the Middle Volga region in a small town Kurmysh. But, in 1931, he was arrested and exiled to Siberia. The Pazukhins are a venerable family with many honored and distinguished representatives. For example, the grandfather of our hero, S.P. Pazukhin, was a maternal cousin and a close friend of the outstanding historiographer N.M. Karamzin. Dmitry Dmitrievich himself was also characterized by high moral principles. Under the trying conditions of exile, he was engaged in teaching activity, fixed local dialecticisms and archaisms and sent all materials to the well-known Slavonic scholar, Academician B.M. Lyapunov. The article allows to learn some unknown facts of the Pazukhinin’s biography. A particular attention was paid to copies of some unpublished documents. Consequently, this paper endeavors to reveal some worthy sons of Russia who suffered from government repressions, as well as to contribute to a good public initiative of restoring historical fairness.
Keywords: political repressions, history of the Pazukhinins family, Middle Volga region, intelligentsia, biography.