Date: 17.03.2016

The conference is designed to identify the tasks in the study of the social, economic and cultural life of the city Serpukhov District in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, both in the context of studies of the life and work of Anton Chekhov, and in the broader context of studying the zemstvo as a socio–economic, socio-political and cultural phenomenon of the Russian life in the second half of the 19th and early 20th century.

Topics of speeches:

• Identification and study of a set of documents of the Serpukhov county zemstvo.
• An overview of the collections of documents of the Serpukhov county Zemstvo and materials about its activities regarding collections of the archives, museums and libraries.
• The problems of identifying and studying the documentary heritage of county zemstvos.
• Correspondence, memoirs, diaries of Zemstvo residents as historical sources.
• Zemstvo and Zemstvo residents in memoirs, fiction and opinion-based journalism.
• Zemstvo and Russian writers.

Program

1. "This is for the need of zemstvos residents..." (A.P. Chekhov and the Serpukhov Zemstvo).
Alevtina Pavlovna Kuzicheva, PhD, member of the Chekhov Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

2. "Participation of the clergy of Serpukhov district in zemstvo activities."
Nadezhda Ivanovna Biryukova, a leading researcher at the A.P. Chekhov Museum-Reserve "Melikhovo".

3. "The neighborhood of A.P. Chekhov in the Melikhovo years. The zemstvo chief Anatoly Konstantinovich Tarnovsky".
Natalia Yuryevna Buntina, senior researcher at the A.P. Chekhov Museum-Reserve "Melikhovo".

4. "...there is no zemstvo post office in Serpukhov district."
Evgenia Evgenievna Bovshik, Head of the sector for the study and popularization of the life and work of A.P. Chekhov of the A.P. Chekhov Museum-Reserve "Melikhovo".

5. "The case of the Lopasnya market" as an example of the "openness of the authorities".
Alexander Anatolyevich Dudin, director of the Museum of Memory 1941–1945.

6. "How the parish school of Zharovo village became a zemstvo school (two editions of one story)".
Anastasia Anatolyevna Zhuravleva, Ph.D. in Philology, member of the Chekhov Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the A.P. Chekhov Museum-Reserve "Melikhovo".

7. "Report on the examination of Russian psychiatric institutions" by P. A. Arkhangelsky (1887) in the history of the Zemstvo”.
Ruslan Borisovich Akhmetshin, PhD, Associate Professor of the Department of the History of Russian Literature, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

8. "Election campaigns for elections to the Serpukhov county zemstvo".
Pavel Vladimirovich Galkin, Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Department of Municipal Management and Social Service of the State University of Social Sciences and Humanities.