FAMILY MEMORY OF THE PUTIN LINEAGE IN THE ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS OF THE PRE-REVOLUTIONARY EPOCH. SEARCH AND IDENTIFICATION

The formation of the lineage scheme\ of the Putin family is considered in the article on the basis of the first introduced into scientific circulation sources from the funds of the State Archive of the Tver region, the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, from the author’s personal archive, the passport service certificates of the internal affairs territorial departments and on the basis of vast illustrative material. That ancestry line is a family tree of V.V. Putin, the President of the Russian Federation. The hereditary scheme is also connected with many other accompanying issues. The aim of the article is to inform the scientific community about the research carried out on the Putin family line: according to the author’s personal notes – since 1969; as indicated in the first document “Paradigm of the intrafamily relations within the Putin lineage” received from A.V. Superanskaya, Dr. of Sci. (Linguistics), the head of the Onomastics Department of the Institute of Linguistics of the USSR Academy of Sciences – since 1986; as provided by the agreement signed with the Association of Genealogists of the Ural Historical-Family Society “On the creation of a family tree of the Putin lineage” – since 1992; informing the public by the official publication of the Association of Genealogists “Documents and materials”, Perm – since 1994; as on the website www.putin-rod.ru – since 2013. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that it is founded on the little-known public and private storage documents which allowed the author to provide, at the current stage, the most possible comprehensive picture of the life of the people from different generations and branches of the Putin family. The relevance of the article is particularly important in the current time of change because people strive to imagine the future in the generations of descendants