KOLODENSKAYA VOLOST POSSESSIONS OF F.SEKRETAREV, THE VALET OF G.POTEMKIN AND CATHERINE II
The purpose of this work is to open unknown pages of the biography of the Secretarevs to prove and determine the period of their Novgorod possessions to add to the information about the first persons of the state and give a more detailed picture of land ownership in the Novgorod province in the middle of the 19th century. Research objectives: to study and systematize the archives of the 19th-20th centuries of the Secretarevs to clarify the time and geographical boundaries of their lands and property. Fyodor Ermolaevich Sekretarev served as valet for G.Potemkin and Catherine II. The history of his estate Fedorovskoye in the Cherepovets district of the Novgorod province belongs to the untouched topics of microregional research. There are few publications, mostly biographical, on the Secretarev family, and they do not contain data on the land tenure of the valet and his heirs in the Novgorod province. Within the framework of this work, links to previous research are provided. The article contains factual material based on archival data and documents of the 19th-20th centuries. The description is given in chronological order. In addition to archival data, the author posts diary and memoir records of contemproraries, information from the descendants of the owners of the estate and its inhabitants.