New Historical Data about the Life and Activity of P.E. Nikitin, Smolensk Historian of Mid-Nineteenth Century: the Problem of the Historiography of Cities in the Russian-Belarusian border area
The article considers poorly studied problems of the historiography of cities in the Russian-Belarusian border area in the context of the study of the life and activity of Smolensk historian of mid-nineteenth century Nikitin Pavel Eliseevich.