From the commander's service record 1st Poltava cavalry regiment, colonel Nikifor Alekseevich Darkin

For the first time, the full-service record of the commander of the 1st Poltava Cavalry Regiment of the Kuban Cossack Army, Nikifor Alekseevich Darkin, compiled as of January 1, 1892, is published. The report of the Stavropol Provincial Noble Deputy Assembly to the Governing Senate (for the Department of Heraldry) No 35 dated January 30, 1893 on the approval of Colonel Nikifor Alekseevich Darkin and his five children in the hereditary nobility of the Russian Empire is summarized.