Keyword: «the sources of this news»

In the view of some historians, urban chronicling in Siberia was conducted along with the "stolny" Tobolsk in Tomsk, which also became (but much later, in 1629) a discharge center. The basis for this conclusion is the presence of a notebook in the Book of the late 1680s. – the earliest among the surviving editions of the Siberian Chronicle – two dozen more or less detailed reports about Tomsk, in particular, about its origin, the formation of the Tomsk category, the change of governors, the deaths of some of them, investigations about the "city holders", the rebellion of the middle of the XVII century, the participation of the Tomites in the construction of the Kuznetsk prison and campaigns in the "The Kyrgyz land." Many of these reports, for example, about the construction of Tomsk, the "delivery" of the Melessky prison after the establishment of the Tomsk discharge, the uprising of 1648-1649, contradict the evidence of other sources, mainly documentary, which makes the conclusion about the Tomsk origin of the relevant testimony of anonymous chroniclers questionable. These testimonies, as can be seen, in particular, from the note on the construction of the Kuznetsk prison, should be attributed to the replies of Tomsk administrators deposited in the archive of the Tobolsk writ chamber, and to the documents that appeared there about the investigations concerning the Tomsk voivodes of Prince N. I. Egupov-Cherkassky and N. A. Velyaminov. It is therefore premature to consider Tomsk as one of the centers of the Siberian urban chronicle of the XVII century, as D. Ya. Rezun was convinced.