V.F. Kudryavtsev – Associate Member of Ethnographic Department of the Society of Devotees of Natural Science, Anthropology and Ethnography, Affiliated with the Moscow University

. The leading role in historical thought foundation and development in the Russian province belongs to metropolitan scientific societies and regional scientific establishments. The work by F.V. Kudryavtsev (1843–1910), researcher of the Russian province history, Associate Member of Ethnographic Department of the Society of Devotees of Natural Science, Anthropology and Ethnography, affiliated with the Moscow University enables to plunge into scientific environment, go into rather research, that collecting activity, aimed at the preservation of historical memory and become pioneer of Russian Ethnographical School establishment in the XIX century