"The forgotten valise", or as I.D. Popko met N.K. Strauss

In the storage facilities of the State Archive of the Stavropol Territory, hundreds of letters written or received by General of the Cossack troops, an ethnographer, writer, bibliophil and enlightener Ivan Diomidovich Popko are stored in various funds. Among them, there are letters of rather famous characters of the second half of the 19th century, close, friends, acquaintances and just random people. One of these messages, which appeared due to the random oversight of the senior pastor of the Lutheran Church of the city of Taganrog, Nikolai Karlovich Strauss, and the article is devoted to.