K.M. Golodnikov - critic, author and editor of «Tobolsk provincial sheets»

The aim of the article is to characterize the path of life and career of the typical employee of the provincial Siberian newspaper. Tasks of article include identification of all possible and not numerous facts of the bureaucratic service and literary biography of such personage, his relations with the Siberian authorities and colleagues on newspaper business. The author makes an attempt to give an answer to the question what is the need and possibility of application of a microhistorical method for reconstruction of life of such little-known and small person, in the context of the "macrohistory" facts. Newspaper publications, some new archival source, scientific studies on the history of the Siberian press became the main sources for the article. As a result of a research the author came to the following conclusions about the biography and creative activity оf the secretary of the Tobolsk provincial statistical committee Kapiton M. Golodnikov in connection with "Tobolsk Provincial Newspaper" ("Tobol'skie gubernskie vedomosti"). K.M. Golodnikov finished Tobolsk grammar school and started working as a teacher of Russian language in Yalutorovsk school, and in 1846 became a bureaucrat. In 1861 he was published in "Moscow Newspaper" for the first time. It was a letter from Tobolsk with criticism of "Tobolsk Provincial Newspaper". Since 1863 he began to being published in that newspaper. In 1880, 1882-1891 and 1895 he was the editor of informal part of "Tobolsk Provincial Newspaper". In 1893-1894 he edited Omsk newspaper "Stepnoy Kray". In 1894 there was a defamation claim between the new editor of "Tobolsk Provincial Gazette" E.V. Kuznetsov and K.M. Golodnikov. K.M. Golodnikov does not belong to outstanding Siberian scientists, public figures and journalists. His biography and a creative heritage are not fascinating or original. From the point of modern historian's view, he was an imperceptible person who wrote about imperceptible subjects. However the staff of "literary industry" in the Russian province constituted of such people. For a long time provincial gazettes were the only newspaper in province. For K.M. Golodnikov participation in the newspaper became a part of his life scenario, a possibility of self-realization and of participation in "discovery" of Siberia for local and all-Russian readers. Such "second plan scientists" - provincial historians, journalists, writers, publicists and critics - are now known only to a narrow circle of researchers. They were full participants of public life and of mass historical consciousness formation though their names did not make it into encyclopedias. Provincial gazettes contain dozens of names of such authors who combined their work in the newspaper with execution of official duties of a teacher, a priest or a bureaucrat.

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