The contribution of P. I. Pezhemsky to the chronicle tradition of the Irkutsk province

Abstract

Pyotr Ilyich Pezhemsky (1809-1861) was an Irkutsk chronicler, artist, local historian, public figure. For many years, P. I. Pezhemsky collected rare, collectible items, manuscripts, scrolls of the outgoing era. The panorama covers the period from 1652 to 1845 and contains 317 sheets provided with author's drawings. Excerpts from it were published in Sovremennik, Irkutsk Gubernskie Vedomosti, and the works of the East Siberian Branch of Russian Geographic Society (VSORGO). The full “Panorama of the Irkutsk province” by P. I. Pezhemsky was published only 171 years after the manuscript was written, thanks to the ascetic of Irkutsk book culture, historian N. V. Kulikakuskene (1940-2012).