Genealogist Dumin: Putin’s family tree was reconstructed using metric books
Restoring a family tree requires effort and time, but there is nothing surprising in the fact that the family of Russian President Vladimir Putin was traced back to the 17th century, says historian-genealogist Stanislav Dumin. In a conversation with Lenta.ru, he revealed the process of creating a family tree.
Earlier, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Putin’s family tree was shown. It has been traced back to the mid-17th century. It is known that the study was ordered by Vladimir Putin’s second cousin Alexander.
Not only the noble, but also the peasant ancestry is restored to the 17th century, because settlements were rewritten, and these documents make it possible to reconstruct the tree, Dumin explained. You just need to know the locality where your ancestors lived, he clarified.
“Starting with Peter I, 10 audits were carried out, that is, censuses of the tax-paying population – both townspeople and peasants. In principle, men paid taxes, but women were also often registered. These lists, first compiled in the 20s of the 18th century, then every 20, 30 years, were sometimes revised more often, because both the townspeople and the landowners of their peasants paid taxes depending on the number of these revision souls. Wonderful piece [писателя Николая] Gogol’s “Dead Souls” is just about this. The census has been carried out, people are registered, taxes must be paid for them, even if they have already died, in the next census they will be crossed out, and those who were born will be added. These censuses have been preserved in most cases, and allow us to reconstruct the tree from father to son through grandchildren and great-grandchildren until the middle of the 19th century,” the genealogist said.
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According to him, before this period there was another type of taxation, a household tax, but residents were also registered in the household, and these records have also been preserved, but not for all counties and villages. “In most cases, this is completely recoverable, and people even reached the end of the 16th century in some places; there are such peasant families in the Urals,” the expert added.
There were also metric books that appeared in the 18th century and seriously supplement the audit lists of the tax-paying population, the Lenta.ru interlocutor noted.
“Problems, oddly enough, arise closer to our times, because after they stopped enumerating all residents in 1861, there was no such single source about the composition of the population. There were some censuses of those who were allocated land, but this only applies to serfs. So metric books are also such a source. They were carried out without fail before the revolution, because this is how the entire population was recorded, not only peasants, but also nobles. Everyone was baptized and recorded according to other religions in their birth registers. This was also a basic document that confirmed a person’s rights to some of his possessions, the right to enter the service, and so on,” Dumin shared.
If you know what village your great-grandfather came from, then this is a technical question. By the way, you don’t even have to go to the archives, because many of the metric books are digitized and are available on archive websites for a small fee. Where it is not digitized, you will have to go to this city and sit in the reading room. It’s not just parish books that can be used, there is a lot of other data about each person, someone served somewhere, there is a database “Feat of the People”, there is a database on the First World War, there is a database on the repressed, now many things have appeared, which allow you to find out not only a dry list of names with dates of birth, but also a lot of all sorts of biographical data, sometimes very interesting. In general, it is possible to restore the same pedigree
Telegram channel RIA_Kremlinpool published photographs of Putin’s family tree. The photographs show that it affects 12 generations of the president’s family. It turned out that the president’s family came from the Tver region, and his ancestors were peasants.
In October 2022, Putin said that he associates himself with the “lower classes” and grew up in a working-class family. According to the head of state, his father graduated from a technical school and worked as a foreman, and his mother did not even have a secondary education, and she worked as a nanny, a janitor and a night watchman.
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