“…Interesting Touches of Modern Life”, or Diary of an Irkutsk Librarian

The article examines the diaries of the Irkutsk librarian Nita Stepanovich Romanov (1871– 1942), published by the State Archives of the Irkutsk Region. N. S. Romanov is known to Irkutsk residents primarily as a compiler of chronicles of the city. At the same time, being first the head of the Irkutsk Public Library, and then an employee of the scientific library of Irkutsk State University, he kept a diary throughout his adult life, in which he recorded in detail his actions and thoughts. Along with the author’s inner world, Romanov’s diaries contain a lot of information about city events, revealing the difficult everyday life of Irkutsk residents, which makes them a very valuable source on the history of the socio-economic and cultural life of Irkutsk in the 1920s–1930s

Sociology · Education, Innovation and Language Studies · Soviet and Russian History