Genealogy as auxiliary historical discipline

The review describes the recently published monograph written by the Kuban historian Andrey Viktorovich Dyukarev “Cossack genealogies in the historical and cultural context of the Kuban (based on the ataman VG Naumenko pedigree, which replenished the historical library of the Krasnodar Territory. The relevance and scientific novelty of the presented publication is noted. The author presents the historiography of the problem proposed by the author and the source base. The attention of readers is drawn to the main sources from the leading federal and regional archives of the Russian Federation, which formed the basis of the study. The reviewer reveals the main structural elements of the proposed work. Attention is drawn to the originality of the applications proposed by the author of the monograph, which help to better understand the essence of the research and the reasons for addressing this complex subject. Some shortcomings of the reviewed publication are noted, which in general do not detract from the merits of the work presented to the general reader.