Население Черемошни по ревизским сказкам 1830–1850-х гг.
The Population of Cheremoshnya Village According to Revision Lists (1830s — 1850s)

Summary/Abstract: In February 1833, Mikhail Andreevich and Maria Fedorovna Dostoevsky acquired the village of Cheremoshnya, located adjacent to Darovoe. Spending his childhood summers in Darovoe, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky frequently visited Cheremoshnya and interacted with its inhabitants. Cheremoshnya is also connected with the tragic death of the writer’s father in the summer of 1839. After his father’s death, the estate passed into the joint ownership of the Dostoevsky children; the revision list (revizskaya skazka) of 1850 dates from this period. In 1852, Cheremoshnya, like the entire Dostoevsky estate, passed to the possession of the writer’s younger sister, V. M. Ivanova. In July 1877, Dostoevsky visited his sister in the countryside, during which he made his final visit to Cheremoshnya. Childhood impressions associated with Cheremoshnya are reflected in many of his works. His interactions with the peasants who lived in the village at that time shaped the worldview of the future writer, and the peasants themselves served as prototypes for his literary characters. During the years when the village was owned by the Dostoevsky and Ivanov families, three revisions (censuses) were conducted: the Eighth (1834), the Ninth (1850), and the Tenth (1858). This article presents the first analysis of the revision lists from the Eighth to Tenth Revisions for Cheremoshnya. The data from the Eighth Revision are compared with a chronologically close source published by V. S. Nechaeva — the “List of Peasants of Darovoe and Cheremoshnya from the Church Register of 1835” — as well as with entries from parish registers for the region. These materials make it possible to clarify the composition of the serf population at the time the Dostoevskys acquired the estate and to trace the demographic changes that occurred there over a period of twenty-four years. The appendix contains a complete transcription of the Eighth Revision, conducted the year after the purchase of Cheremoshnya.

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