RAISA PAVLOVNA MITUSOVA: UNKNOWN PAGES OF BIOGRAPHY AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY

R. P. Mitusov. 1929 (Photo Library of REM, coll. N IM6-205).

In recent years, unknown pages of the life and work of repressed ethnographers and anthropologists have been revealed. Among them is Raisa Pavlovna Mitusova [Kitova, 1993, p. 70; 1999, p. 16-22; Karapetova, 1999, p. 229-231]. She was one of the first Russian researchers of the peoples of the Tobolsk North. Until recently, little was known about Mitusova's identity and fate. Materials found by the authors in the state archives of the Arkhangelsk (GAAO), Kemerovo (GAKO), Sverdlovsk (GASO), Tomsk (GATO), Novosibirsk (GANO) regions, the Central State Historical Archive in St. Petersburg (TSGIA SPb.), the Department of Manuscripts of the State Russian Museum (OR GRM), the archive of the Russian Ethnographic Society of the Russian Federation. The Museum (REM) and the archive of the Scientific Research Center (SIC) of the St. Petersburg branch of the Memorial Society, made it possible to clarify many aspects of the biography of R. P. Mitusova.

Raisa Pavlovna Kutepova, married Mitusova, was born on March 22 (March 9, old style), 1894 in Kholmogory, Arkhangelsk Province, in the family of Pavel Alexandrovich Kutepov, a collegiate assessor. The son of a priest, Pavel Alexandrovich graduated from the Lisinsky Forestry School in 1880 and worked for many years as a forester and land surveyor, first in the Novgorod and then in the Arkhangelsk provinces. In 1897, P. A. Kutepov participated in the population census, for which he was awarded a government award-a bronze medal. In 1903, he retired from the position of full-time controller of the Arkhangelsk District Excise Department. Raisa Pavlovna's mother was a Novgorod noblewoman, Olga Andreevna Timofeeva. In her marriage to P. A. Kutepov, she gave birth to two daughters-Raisa and Alexandra. The Kutepov family was large and friendly: Pavel Alexandrovich adopted Olga Andreevna's three children from her first marriage to Konstantin Matveevich Timofeev-sons Alexander, Boris and Sergey - and gave them his surname (GAAO. F. 51. Op. 3. T. 2. D. 421. L. 11-12ob.). In 1899. Olga Andreyevna died. At this time, PA's eldest adopted son. Alexander Kutepova, later a famous general and one of the leaders of the Volunteer White Army, graduated from the cadet school in St. Petersburg. The younger children, including Raisa, continued their studies at the Arkhangelsk Gymnasium. In 1911, after completing six classes of the Arkhangelsk Mariinsky Girls 'Gymnasium, Raisa Kutepova entered the Ostashkovsky Girls' Gymnasium. Here she graduated from the seventh and additional eighth grades with an in-depth study of Russian language and literature and received the title of "home teacher" (TsGIA SPb. F. 113. Op. 7. D. 226. L. 28). After the death of his father in 1912 and the end of the gymnasium in June 1913. Raisa Pavlovna moved to St. Petersburg and became a student of the Higher Women's Bestuzhev courses (OR GRM. f. 3. Op. 10. D. 305. L. 3-22; GANO. F. R-61. Op. 1. D. 1465. L. 33). She was enrolled in the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, majoring in biology. Raisa Pavlovna combined her studies at the Bestuzhev courses with her work in the geographical circle, being its chairman. At the end of his training in 1918. she joined the Russian Geographical Society. Here, under the guidance of a well-known archaeologist and anthropologist Prof. F. K. Volkova Raisa Pavlovna was engaged in processing the data of ethnographic questionnaires obtained in 1912-1915 by expeditions organized by the Commission for the Compilation of Ethnographic Maps of Russia. The questionnaires contained detailed information about the housing, clothing, and occupations of the Russian population. Apparently, working with these materials largely determined Raisa Pavlovna's professional interests.

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In 1918, R. P. Kutepova married Stepan Stepanovich Mitusov. Together with her husband, she leaves Petrograd and goes to Arkhangelsk, where at that time the forces of the white officers are concentrated. S. S. Mitusov, as an officer, takes part in military operations on the Northern Front as part of the White Guard units of E. K. Miller's army. Soon S. S. Mitusov, apparently, was killed; as Raisa Pavlovna noted in her autobiography, after 11 months of marriage, she was widowed (Op. GRM. F. 3. Op. 10. D. 305. L. 3). All that is known about the next two years of Mitu Sova's life is that from 1919 to 1920. she worked as a typist and accountant at the Kanat factory in Arkhangelsk (In the same place). Only in 1921 did R. P. Mitusova decide to return to Petrograd. Here she entered the geological course (with a "bias in anthropology") department of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Petrograd University. At the same time, Mitusova worked at the Russian Academy of History of Material Culture. At the University, its teacher of anthropology, comparative ethnography and ethnography of Siberia was S. I. Rudenko, and the head of practical work was S. A. Teploukhov (TsGIA SPb. f. 113. Op. 7. D. 226. L. 41). Their paths crossed repeatedly. Mitusova knew S. I. Rudenko, a bright and talented scientist, from her joint work at the Russian Geographical Society. In the summer of 1921, at the invitation of S. I. Rudenko, she participated in anthropological and ethnographic research in the Southern Urals. At that time, Sergey Ivanovich was preparing a monograph "Bashkirs" for publication and he needed some clarifications and help in his work (GATO. F. R-815. Op. 1. D.89. L. 71-72). Later, Mitusova worked together with S. A. Teploukhov in the ethnographic department of the Russian Museum, headed by SI. Rudenko.

In 1922, Raisa Pavlovna participated in the Upper Volga expedition of the Academy of Sciences, led by D. A. Zolotarev, as a "research associate in anthropometry". She studied Karelians and Russians (gunners) in Vesyegonsky uyezd, Tver province [Zolotarev, 1924, p. 14, 18]. A gifted ethnographer and anthropologist, D. A. Zolotarev made a huge contribution to the study of the Russian and Finnish-speaking population of Northwestern and Central Russia. It marked the beginning of a systematic and systematic study of these regions. Participants of the three-to four-month expeditions collected ethnographic information, made anthropometric measurements, studied folklore and dialect features of the Russian and Karelian languages. In those years, the Zolotarev expedition school was attended by many researchers who later became famous, among them: M. I. Artamonov, M. P. Gryaznov, N. P. Grinkova, N. F. Prytkova, N. I. Hagen-Thorn and others. Working with F. K. Volkov, D. A. Zolotarev and S. I. Rudenko helped R. P. Mitusova to develop as an ethnographer in many ways.

Raisa Pavlovna conducted two subsequent expeditions (1923, 1924-1925) to poorly explored areas of Western Siberia independently on behalf of the Ethnographic Department of the Russian Museum, the Russian Academy of History of Material Culture, and the Committee for the Study of the Tribal Composition of the Population of the USSR (KIPS) and the Ural Regional Planning Commission (Uralplan).

In the 20s of the XX century-the period preceding social transformations in the North - a systematic and comprehensive study of the culture of the Northern peoples, their traditional system of settlement and land use, and the state of crafts began. These issues were dealt with by the KIPS, established under the Academy of Sciences, and the Committee for Assistance to the Peoples of the Northern Suburbs under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the USSR (Committee of the North). For a comprehensive study of the culture of the Northern peoples, ethnographers were primarily involved. One of these specialists was R. P. Mitusova. She became the first ethnographer to explore the vast region from the lower reaches of the Nadym River to the upper reaches of the Khagan, Agan and Pur Rivers, where the cultures of three peoples - the Khanty, Selkups, forest and tundra Nenets-closely intertwined.

Exploration in the North was fraught with many difficulties. The expeditions of R. P. Mitusova took place in the most difficult conditions in the territory poorly studied geographically, among the population, about which little was known. The object of her first expedition was the Agan Khanty. In a letter to the head of the ethnographic department of the Russian Museum B. Kryzhanovsky, Raisa Pavlovna reported: "The ostyaks of the Agan River are still poorly studied: from the Russian Agan visited in 1900. Dunin-Gorkavich, who traveled the winter route for geographical research of the region, and in Sirelius ' work there are references to ostyakov from the Agan River. Little touched by Russian culture, the life of the Agan Ostyaks is of great interest...". According to R. P. Mitusova, at that time there were 230 Agan Khanty."...These ostyaks are mostly reindeer herders, partly reindeer herders... reindeer husbandry is developed in the upper Ostyaks, the Lower Dagan ones contain 2-10 deer for movement, " the researcher noted. "The dwellings are extremely diverse: from a log cabin to a dugout and a chum." Officially, the Agan Khanty were considered baptized, but they all adhered to traditional beliefs. "Shamanism is developed, almost every yurt has its own shaman. Curious bear festival, which I had to attend only one night and record only 21 scenes" (Archive REM. f. 2. Op. 1. D. 140. L. 1-2).

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In 1924-1925. Raisa Pavlovna continued her work in the Tobolsk North, where she spent 11 months. The route of the expedition was as follows. From Surgut, where Mitusova arrived on August 15, 1924, she went to the Khanty on the Agan River, where in total she stayed until the end of September, leaving only for a few days to the Variogan forest Nenets. In October, she was already at the forest Nenets on the Kavan-yaun River and from there a month later went to the Pur River, where she roamed with the forest Nenets until mid-January. Then its route ran on the river. Pelvis to the Selkups. In the first days of February, Raisa Pavlovna arrives for the winter in the village. Halmersede, and then through the settlements of Nori and Khe goes to Obdorsk (now Salekhard). From Obdorsk, via Berezovo, Tobolsk, and Samarovo, it returns to Surgut [Izzhni Obshchestva..., 1925, p. 35]. Thus, R. P. Mitusova devoted part of her time to studying the Agan Khanty, Taz Selkups, and tundra Nenets living in the Taz Bay area, but the main stage of the expedition was related to the study of the culture of the forest Nenets inhabiting the upper tributaries of the Agan and the Pura basin.

On the Agan, Pur and their tributaries, the researcher recorded 693 people living in 97 chums, including 380 children under 15 years of age (GASO. F. 1812. Op. 2. D. 183. L. 30). The forest Nenets remained practically out of the field of view of scientists until the beginning of the XX century. They fully preserved their ethnic specifics, since the areas of their settlement were difficult to access, with a low population density.: "Even the former Russian traders hardly visited this region. Along the Trom-Yugan River, Russian traders traveled (very rarely) only to the first yurts in the summer, preferring to trade with ostyak and samoyeds in winter at the Surgut Fair. Only the winter road from Lake Pyakot through the Ermakov yurts on the Trom-Yugan River is enlivened by passing Russian merchants from the Taz Bay to Surgut" [1927, p. 66]. R. P. Mitusova spent almost all of her most difficult expedition, wandering from chum to Chum, alone. Sometimes, if the night caught her on the road, she had to spend the night right in the snow. "They put my tarpaulin on the snow, put reindeer fur coats on it. I lay down right in my clothes, they covered me from above with the fur coats I had collected for the museum, and then... covered with snow. She just asked me not to cover my head... somehow it is unpleasant to think that you will be completely buried" [1929, N 15, p. 8]. At that time, among the forest Nenets and Agan Khanty, there were almost no people who spoke Russian, and many even saw Russians for the first time. Raisa Pavlovna independently learned the Nenets and Khanty languages and could express herself in them. She had to not only do research, but also provide first aid. Being a tactful, intelligent and unpretentious person in everyday life, Mitusova enjoyed the respect and trust of the local population. However, she had experienced more than one unpleasant moment. Raisa Pavlovna described how on Variogan during shamanic kamlaniya, " grabbing a tambourine and throwing it up, the shaman began to dance in front of me, jumping and bowing. ...His face twitched nervously, his mouth twisted... Paiata was wet and shaking and scary. ...Here he crawled across my bed, around me, took my head in his hands, put his ear to it, and breathed heavily and hoarsely. I froze and didn't move" [Ibid., No. 11, pp. 11-12]. However, everything ended well for the brave researcher. As she was later told, the shaman learned from the spirits that she was a "big healer", "big boss" and " evil spirit (devil) he's afraid of her."

During R. P. Mitusova's expeditions, extensive ethnographic material was collected on the culture of the Agan Khanty, forest Nenets and Taz Selkups, and anthropometric measurements of the Khanty and forest Nenets were made. A total of 512 people were examined. [Mitusova, 1926, p. 80].

In 1925. Raisa Pavlovna was accepted into the staff of the ethnographic department of the Russian Museum as an assistant curator. Her work was highly appreciated by her colleagues. In the documents of the Council of the ethnographic department there is an entry: "A report was heard about the return of R. P. Mitusova from a long and difficult trip to Western Siberia for ethnological work among the Agan Ostyaks and Samoyeds. On this journey, which lasted over 9 months, R. P. Mitusova, despite extremely difficult conditions... it was possible to collect very rich and valuable material and significantly supplement the collection of the ethnographic department" (Archive of REM. F. 2. Op. 1. d. 140. p. 10).

The thoroughness with which R. P. Mitusova studied the culture of these peoples is reflected in the materials she collected. The collections brought to the ethnographic department of the Russian Museum number over 700 items. storage options. A small part of the materials was left by the researcher in the Tobolsk, Yekaterinburg and Tyumen museums of local lore, where they are still located today [Karapetova, 1987, pp. 30-34; 1999, pp. 229-231; Tomilov, 2000, p. 131]. The collections kept in the Russian Ethnographic Museum* are well annotated and contain information on terminology and the way things exist. Significant

* In 1934, the ethnographic department, which was part of the Russian Museum, was transformed into an independent institution - the State Museum of Ethnography (since 1994 - the Russian Ethnographic Museum).

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part of the materials collected by Mitusova are hunting tools that give an idea of both the objects of hunting and the methods of finishing off the beast. Quite fully reflected utensils. In the collection belonging to the forest Nenets, there are mainly products made of fur and wood. The Khanty collection is very diverse. It includes wooden utensils, various in shape and purpose utensils made of birch bark, fir bast and split cedar root. The collection of Khanty and Nenets men's, women's and children's clothing deserves attention. A unique part of the collection is a set of items used at the Agan Khanty bear festival: a birch bark mask, a tag for counting songs at the bear festival, on the faces of which notches were made according to the number of songs performed in honor of the bear, as well as images of deer made of dough - they were placed in front of the bear at the The collection includes religious items purchased from the forest Nenets and Khanty peoples. Among the forest Nenets, R. P. Mitusova managed to collect a collection of toys and puzzles-pyai kopsu (letters, wooden riddle), which not only young children, but also teenagers liked to think about. Among the Selkup materials, numbering approx. 30 items of particular interest are men's match storage bags decorated with embroidery, which is made with deer neck hair, as well as women's needleboxes decorated with beads, and men's fur clothing.

During the 1923 and 1924-1925 expeditions of R. P. Mitusova, 31 photographs were taken [Mitusova, 1926, p. 80]. However, these photos were not registered and were considered lost for a long time. Some of them were discovered by one of the authors of the article in the archive of the Department of Siberia, described and handed over to the photo library of the REM. Despite the poor quality, the photographs are of considerable scientific interest. They depict a deer sacrifice, a sacred sled, the homes of the Khanty and Nenets peoples, and the local residents themselves (Photo Library of the Russian Museum of Natural History, Col. N 10475 - 10477).

As a full-time employee of the museum, R. P. Mitusova, at the invitation of the Committee of the North, in 1926 went to the Nadymsky district (Tromagan and Nadym Rivers), which was completely unexplored by specialists, "for ethnographic and anthropological studies of the region and finding out its colonization possibilities" [Mitusova, 1927, p.66]. In addition to Raisa Pavlovna, the expedition included topographer A. A. Nagel, who was assigned to the route survey, and veterinarian M. I. Berezin, who was supposed to study reindeer husbandry. During the three summer months, the expedition managed to pass on dugout boats and on foot from the lower reaches of Tromagan through its tributary Nyatlonga Yagun and tributaries of the Nadym to the lower reaches of the Nadym.

In December 1926. The Ural Regional Committee of the North and the Ural Statistical Office of R. P. Mitusova were invited to participate in the All-Russian Population Census. The letter to the management of the Russian Museum said: "R. P. Mitusova is going to the most distant and least known in relation to the National Museum of Art. this is the census site of the Tobolsk North (meaning the Tazovsky site. - I. K., L. K.). The nearest neighborhoods to this section are located on the map. Mitusova has already visited over the past 3 years and enjoys the full confidence of the natives there... probably the best employee in the area where cultural work is being done for the first time... Uralstatupravleniyu now can not find" (Archive REM. f. 2. Op. 1. D. 140. L. 10). However, when Raisa Pavlovna arrived at the site, she was offered a route that largely followed the path of her last expedition. It was supposed to travel from the mouth of the Nadym River to its upper reaches to the lake. Num-to, where at that time mainly forest Nenets lived, and meet with the census team of N. A. Kotovshchikova, who worked on the Polui River (Khomich, 2002, p. 129-130). This meeting did not take place. Mitusova was unable to travel to the tundra due to illness, and her census work took place mainly in the lower reaches of the Nadym River, in the vicinity of the villages of Nori and Khe (GASO. F. 1812. Op. 2. D. 18. P. 5).

In 1928, R. P. Mitusova went to the Western Tien-Shan, to the Kirghiz ASSR, on an expedition organized by the USSR Academy of Sciences. This was her last ethnographic trip.

In 1928-1929. Raisa Pavlovna was engaged in registration of imported collections, taught classes at the ethnographic department of the Sunday Workers ' University, organized at the Russian Museum, and often gave lectures. In 1930, at the invitation of Soyuzkino, R. P. Mitusov, as an author and consultant, took part in the creation of the scientific film "Ostyaks of the Agan River".

Unfortunately, Raisa Pavlovna did not have time to process the extensive factual material she collected. Everything ended abruptly. In December 1930, Raisa Pavlovna Mitusova was arrested. Her fate was tragically affected by her relationship with General A. P. Kutepov and, apparently, acquaintance with S. I. Rudenko, who was arrested on August 5, 1930. The famous scientist was held in the case of the so-called counter-revolutionary monarchical organization of academicians S. F. Platonov, E. V. Tarle and others. "National Union of Struggle for the Revival of free Russia" [Tishkin, Schmidt, 2004, p. 22]. Raisa Pavlovna's name is mentioned in the records of S. I. Rudenko's interrogations: "My closest employees at the Russian Museum are ... Mitusova Raisa Pavlovna, wife of the deceased b. b. (former white. - I. K., L. K.) army officer

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Miller's sister Gen. Kutepova... " [Life path..., 2004, adj., p. 130].

In the fabricated case, R. P. Mitusova was accused of having links with members of a counter-revolutionary cadet-monarchist organization, through which she allegedly received information about her brother A. P. Kutepov and " together with other defendants grouped an anti-Soviet element around her "(Archive reference of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation dated April 22, 1994-Archive of the St. Petersburg Memorial Research CenterA. P. Kutepov, who was one of the organizers and first chairman of the anti-Soviet "Russian All-Military Union", was abducted by OGPU officers in Paris on January 26, 1930 and died in the hold of a ship that was supposed to take him to Novorossiysk. Two of Raisa Pavlovna's brothers (Sergey, who graduated from the Faculty of Economics at St. Petersburg University, and Boris, who took the priesthood) also suffered "for the surname" [Teletova, 1998, p. 129; Kitova, 2003, p. 68-71].

On April 25, 1931, Raisa Pavlovna was sentenced to exile to the West Siberian Region for a period of three years by a decision of the OGPU visiting session. In May 1931, she was sent to settle in the Tomsk region. After serving her term of exile, Mitusova moved to Kemerovo in 1935. She chose the city, apparently, not by chance - her brother Sergey Pavlovich Kutepov lived here with his family at that time. He came to Kemerovo in 1928 after the end of his exile in the Narym region and worked as an accountant in a pharmacy.

On July 25, 1935, Raisa Pavlovna was appointed Director of the Kemerovo Museum of Local Lore. For the first time, the museum was headed by a professional of such a high level.

The 1930s were a difficult period in the history of museums. Museums were redesigned, expositions were unified, the old direction of work was considered too academic, "kunstkamera", which did not meet the tasks of the new time. In this regard, the West Siberian Bureau of Local Lore strongly recommended that the young Kemerovo Museum of Local Lore change its profile to polytechnic (GAKO. F. R-1088, Op. 1. D. 5. L. 27). On January 28, 1935, a corresponding resolution was issued by the museum department of the People's Commissariat of Education, according to which it was necessary to conduct an investigation until August 15, 1935. re-exhibition of the museum, formalize a new department of socialist construction and remove all items that do not represent museum value (GANO. F. R-61. Op. 1. D.1465. L. 14). R. P. Mitusova was faced with complex tasks: it was necessary to urgently conduct an inventory of museum exhibits (a fire in 1929 in the museum destroyed most of the documentation), develop a new exhibition plan, replenish the funds with missing exhibits, and most importantly, create this exhibition. R. P. Mitusova led all the research work in the museum, since its staff consisted of from the director, employee, and cleaning lady. In just three months, together with her collaborator S. F. Ivanov, she managed to prepare a new exhibition on socialist construction and conduct an inventory of the exhibits (GAKO. F. R-1088. Op. 1. D. 5. L. 55-58).

At the beginning of 1936, R. P. Mitusova was engaged in describing collections, attracting specialists in the field of chemistry and geology, visiting Novosibirsk archives and libraries to collect materials on the history of the Verkhnetomsky prison and on the revolutionary past of Kuzbass. She actively involved students in the work, created a club of friends of the museum. In 1935-1936. Raisa Pavlovna organized geological trips of schoolchildren to replenish the museum's collections. At the same time, the children collected herbariums to create profiles of the region's flora. During the campaign, copies of petroglyphs were made at d. Written. In the summer of 1936, on the recommendation of the regional Department of Public Education, R. P. Mitusova organized and led a local history campaign to the places of battles in 1918 of the Red Army detachment under the leadership of Pyotr Sukhov. She prepared an exhibition of materials collected during the local history campaign named after him. X Congress of the Komsomol (Ibid. f. R-1088. Op. 1. D. 5; GANO. F. R-61. Op. 1. D. 1465). Active anthropological and ethnographic research of Mitusova in the Petrograd-Leningrad period of her life was replaced by the organization of local lore campaigns.

Raisa Pavlovna's activities were largely educational in nature. Mitusova conducted excursions, organized local history trips, and created a circle of young geographers. In 1935, the city Department of Public Education appointed her head of the section of teachers-geographers. The section management turned into a teaching job: Raisa Pavlovna gave lectures on geography, geology, botany. R. P. Mitusova was engaged in replenishing the museum's library, applied to the Russian Museum with a request to help with literature. At the beginning of 1936, the staff of the Russian Museum sent the necessary books and magazines.

Officials at all levels monitored the trustworthiness of citizens, especially for managers of all ranks. In June 1936, the politpros of the regional Department of Public Education notified R. P. Mitusova that in connection with the revision of the composition of museum directors, she needed to submit documents (GAKO. F. R-1088. Op. 1. D. 5. L. 15-16). On December 25, 1936, the presidium of the Kemerovo City Council evaluated the activities of the city Council. it is considered weak because of the " actual

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the absence of a historical and revolutionary department and the absence of illustrations "on technology and production processes of economic organizations". R. P. Mitusova was relieved of her duties as director and transferred to the scientific staff of the museum. In her report for the fourth quarter of 1936, she wrote:: "I fully support the resolution of the City Council, since the museum should be headed by a party employee, and for now I remain a scientific employee of the museum" (quoted in [Vydrina, 1999, pp. 62-63]).

On March 26, 1937, Sergey Pavlovich Kutepov and on June 4, 1937, Raisa Pavlovna Mitusova were arrested. They were held in the same case, fabricated by the NKVD. SP. Kutepov was accused of creating a counter - revolutionary organization "Russian All-Military Union" (ROVS) on the territory of the USSR on the direct instructions of his brother-General A. P. Kutepov. Sergei Pavlovich and Raisa Pavlovna were charged with carrying out espionage, sabotage and terrorist activities, training counter-revolutionary and insurgent cadres for the armed struggle against the Soviet government and the restoration of the capitalist system in the USSR (Archive of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation No. 124, No. 193). In May 1937, S. P. Kutepov was transferred from the Kemerovo city Department of the NKVD to the disposal of investigators of the Novosibirsk regional Department of the NKVD. Sergei Pavlovich did not admit any of the charges against him and committed suicide by throwing himself out of the window of the NKVD building. On October 2, 1939, the criminal case against him was dismissed with a strange wording: Kutepov was "not identified" by the investigating authorities (cit. according to: [Ismagilov, 2003, p. 253]). R. P. Mitusova was charged under Articles 58-10, 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and was held in custody at the house of pre-trial detention of the NKVD in the West Siberian Region (Archive of the FSB Department No. 124. L. 6). Then she was transferred to Novosibirsk. December 7, 1937" troika " of the NKVD of the Novosibirsk region. Raisa Pavlovna Mitusova was sentenced under art. 58 - 2 - 6 - 11 Criminal Code of the RSFSR for execution. The sentence was carried out on December 9, 1937 in Novosibirsk. R. P. Mitusova was rehabilitated on March 12, 1957 "for lack of evidence of a crime "(Archive of the St. Petersburg Memorial Research Center).

So tragically ended the life of a talented researcher, an outstanding and courageous woman Raisa Pavlovna Mitusova. She did not manage to fully realize herself. All the most valuable diary entries of the researcher disappeared, but the unique collections she collected, her articles and her memory about her were preserved. In 1981, one of the authors of this article, during an expedition near the Purovsky forest Nenets, managed to meet old people who remembered R. P. Mitusova; they said that several girls were named Raisa in her honor.

Published articles by R. P. Mitusova

Materials on the budgets of peasant Samoyedic and Ostyak farms // Statistics of the Urals. - Ser. 5. - 1925. - Vol. 1. - p. 104 - 137,170 - 171.

Aganskie ostyaki (antropologo-statisticheskii ocherk) [Aganskie ostyaks (an anthropological and statistical essay)]. Ural, 1926, issue 8, pp. 1-5.

Medvezhy prazdnik u aganskikh ostyakov Surgutskogo r. Tobolskogo okruga [The bear festival among the Agan ostyaks of the Surgut river of the Tobolsk district]. - 1926. - N 1. - p. 11-14.

Ob-Taz watershed trip // Ethnographic Expeditions of 1924 and 1925, Moscow: State Russian Museum, 1926, pp. 79-81.

In the Far North (Expedition to the Nadym region and the Tom-Yugan River) / / Ural, Local History. - 1927. - Issue 1. - pp. 66-69.

K antropologii lesnykh samoyedov [On the anthropology of forest Samoyeds] / / Proc. of the Third All - Russian Congress of Zoologists, anatomists and Histologists, Moscow, 1928, pp. 340-341.

Year among the forest people / / Around the world. - 1929. - N 9. - p. 6-9; N 11. - P. 10-13; N 12. - P. 14-17; N 14. - P. 13-15; N15. - P. 6-8.

List of literature

Vydrina O. V. On the history of creation of the Kemerovo regional Museum of Local lore // Novosibirsk. archive, vesti. - 1999. - N2. - p. 58-63.

Zolotarev D. A. Work of the ethnological expedition in Tver and Rybinsk provinces. Preliminary report on the work of 1922 / / Izv. Ros. Academies of the History of Material Culture. - 1924. - Vol. 3. - p. 1-32.

Life path, creativity, scientific heritage of Sergey Ivanovich Rudenko and the activities of his colleagues. - Barnaul: Alt Publishing House. state University, 2004, 148 p. (in Russian)

From the life of the Society for the Study of the Tobolsk Region at the Tobolsk Museum. North. Return of ethnographer R. P. Mitusova from the Tob. North / / Our region. - 1925. - N 4 (8). - pp. 35-36.

Ismagilov A. Istoriya Beloi Sibiri: Materialy V Mezhdunar. nauch. konferentsii [History of White Siberia: Materials of the V International Scientific Conference], Kemerovo, 2003, pp. 252-253.

Karapetova I. A. Collection on forest Nenets in the collection of the State Museum of Ethnography of the peoples of the USSR // problems of ethnographic museology. Omsk: Omsk State University, 1987, pp. 30-34.

Karapetova I. A. Kollektsiya R. P. Mitusova po aganskim khantam v sobranii REM [Collection of R. P. Mitusova on the Agan Khanty in the collection of REM]. "Cultural heritage of the peoples of Western Siberia". - Tobolsk; Omsk, 1999. - p. 229-231.

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I. A. Karapetova 1, L. Y. Kitova 2

1 Russian Ethnographic Museum

4/1 Engineering Street, Saint Petersburg, 191011, Russia

E-mail: ethnomus@sopos.spb.ru

2 Kemerovo State University

6 Krasnaya str., Kemerovo, 650043, Russia

E-mail: archaeology@kemsu.ru

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