his abbreviated signature in two places in the “Registers” (namely, under the Velotserkovsky regiment, page 147: “I.V. Pisar, v.r.”, and under Umansky, page 167: “I. Vygov. P.”).
Naturally, I asked the owner of the “Cossack Registers” to allow me to get to know them better, which is what I received. Then, having carefully examined their contents, I made quite a lot of extracts for myself from there, writing down the names of all the regiments and their senior officers, as well as much more. Afterwards, after the retirement of the owner of this manuscript, every time I saw him during his travels through Moscow to St. Petersburg and back, I persuaded him to convey his manuscript to me for publication in the “Readings in the Imperial Society of Russian History and Antiquities at Moscow University,” which I opened at that time, as the Secretary of this Society, received from him a promise to take with me to the future passage through Velokamennaya; but time flew by, and there was no fulfillment. After his death, on July 4, 1857, I received what I asked from his eldest son, Vladimir Andreevich, through the mediation of
* A. Ya. was born in 1790, in 1806 he was released from the 2nd Cadet Corps as an artillery Second Lieutenant, was present at the siege of Izmail, received a golden cross for the Bazardzhitsky affair, participated in the assault on Rushchuk in 1810, was with Major General Isaev in Serbia, in the war with Napoleon, Adjutant of the Chief of Artillery of the 2nd Army, for the Adjutant of the Chief of the 1st Army, took part in the battles of Smolensk (here wounded in the lower back), Maly Yaroslazshche (wounded in the right leg) Krasny, Dresden and Leipzig, and was awarded for this with 3 promotions in rank, a golden sword and the Order of Vladimir 4 with a bow and Anna of the 2nd degree: Posie of the Peace of Paris in retirement Lieutenant Colonel with uniform; at the end of 1817, an official of special assignments of the special Chancellery of the Ministry of Police, was soon enlisted by Count Arakcheev in the 1st Bug Uhlan Regiment as a Major against his wishes, and two years later he was again promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and then appointed a senior deputy to the Yekaterinoslav Land Survey Office when delimiting the districts of the military settlement of the Bug Uhlan Division from the landowners Isheviy, for which, two years later, he received diamond marks to Anna of the 2nd degree, and entered Count Witt as an Officer on duty; after 5 years Polkoviik 8a distinction; in 1832 he was a member of the Viceroy of the Kingdom of Nola, century
PREFACE.
under his cousin, now Professor at Moscow University, Nikolai Ilyich Storozhenok.
Many, looking at this “Cossack Register,” may perhaps remark to me: wouldn’t it be better to make from them only an extraction of what seems worthy of extraction in one respect or another? Of course, one could be content with such an extraction; but I look at the “Register” a little differently. They seemed important to me for the Little Russian people, especially their Cossacks, in many respects:
Like an authentic government document for