"...You should always write for the past month - that there was a chronicle" (letters of I.D. Popko V.F. Zolotarenko in the GASK funds)

One of the most famous historians of chernomoria is Ivan diomidovich Popko, author of books and a number of articles on the history of the Cossacks, who spent the Mature part of his adult life in Stavropol. Therefore, the main part of its archive is stored there. A significant part of it consists of personal letters from Ekaterinodar, Tiflis, Vladikavkaz, St. Petersburg, and other cities. In the State archive of the Stavropol territory, the Fund 377, the authors were able to discover documents of great interest to historians who study the everyday life of the city of Ekaterinodar the mid-nineteenth century - it notes (4 sheets) exchanged between young Ivan and Diomidovich Vasily Fedorovich to the last departure in Stavropol, and 39 letters I.D. Popko, V.F., Zolotarenko, in the period from 1847 to 1855 A review of the identified notes and letters is offered to the reader.