Family nest: the history of the Tatarinov family (Late 18th–19th Centuries)

The article is devoted to the history of the village of Gryaznusha in the Tambov District of the Tambov Governorate in the late 18th–19th centuries, and to a description of the size and composition of its population. Gryaznusha is the ancestral home of the Tatarinov family. The history of the Tatarinov family, the largest group within the population of Gryaznusha, is reconstructed. The article is written in the genre of a family history, the subject of which is the depiction of the lives of several generations of one family. When describing the family history, the author uses the method of historical reconstruction. The factual material for the article is extracted from economic, geographical and statistical descriptions of the Tambov Governorate and the Tambov Diocese of the 18th–19th centuries, census records of the village of Gryaznusha from 1782, 1811 and 1858, and parish registers of the Church of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God in the village of Gryaznusha, which are stored in the State Archive of the Tambov Region.