Dmitri Bantysh-Kamensky

Dmitri Nikolaevich Bantysh-Kamensky (; 5 (16) November 1788, Moscow – January 25 (February 6) 1850, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian statesman and historian who studied under pioneering 18th-century historian G. F. Müller He served as Governor of Tobolsk Governorate between March 1825 and 20 July 1828 and then later became Governor of the Vilna Province between May 1836 and 1838. Dmitri Bantysh-Kamensky is considered the first true historian of the Cossacks. In this position, he cared much about the improvement of the city, the improvement of the life of exiles and local aliens, contributed to the abolition of dowry among the Mansi people.

Despite, however, for such a useful activity, Bantysh-Kamensky in 1828 became a victim of a senatorial audit, for which the investigation and trial in the Court of St. Petersburg was prolonged, until 1834. With regard to these persecutions, he compiled a detailed note entitled "Shemyakin Court in the Nineteenth Century"; Part of it was printed in the Russian antiquity of 1873.

Taking advantage of his involuntary leisure, Bantysh-Kamensky again gave himself to his favorite literary pursuits. By this time belongs his " Dictionary of the memorable people of the Russian land " (5 volumes, Moscow, 1836, additions in 3 volumes, St. Petersburg, 1847 ), based on a variety of archival sources, family documents and oral reports.

In May 1836, Bantysh-Kamensky was appointed governor of the Vilna province. Here he drew attention to the improvement of charitable institutions and hospitals, the organization of cities, but in 1838 was recalled and assigned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Then he was a member of the council of this ministry ( 1839 ) and a member of the department of destinies ( 1810 ), and in 1841 was granted secret councilors.

During the last period of his life, Bantysh-Kamensky owned his "Biographies of Russian Generalissimo and General-Field Marshals" (4 parts, St. Petersburg, 1840 - 1841 ), for the publication of which Emperor Nicholas I granted 2000 rubles.

Bantysh-Kamensky died in Petersburg on January 26, 1850, and was buried in Moscow, within the Donskoy Monastery. He was married three times and left a significant family, but neither service nor literary works enriched him, so that to repay his debts the emperor Nikolai Pavlovich granted his estate 10,000 rubles.

Literature В 2 ч. — М.: Тип. Н. С. Всеволожского, 1812–1813. С 22 портретами и 2 медалями; 2 изд., Москва, 1821; франц. перевод, Москва, 1822 и 1828; париж. изд. 1826 и 1829 с портр.; англ. перевод, Лондон, 1851 без портр. — М.: Тип. Имп. медико-хирургич. акад., 1818. — 79 с. История Малой России: 2 ч. — М.: тип. С. Селивановскаго, 1822. В 3 ч. — .: Тип. С. Селивановского, 1830. История Малой России от водворения Славян в сей стране до уничтожения Гетманства. — 4-е изд. — Киев: Тип. И. И. Чоколова, 1903. — 653 с.

В 5 ч. — М.: Тип. Августа Семёна, 1836.

Биографии российских генералиссимусов и генерал-фельдмаршалов с 48 портретами: В 3 ч. — СПб.: Тип. Третьего Департамента Министерства Государственных Имуществ, 1840. Источники малороссийской истории» (напечатаны Бодянским в «Чтениях моск. общ. истории» 1858, кн. I и 1859, кн. I) и другие труды. Бантыш-Каменский Д. Н. Шемякин суд в XIX столетии, или ревизия Тобольской губернии. Записки Д. Н. Бантыш-Каменского. Извлечения // Русская старина, 1873. — Т. 7. — No. 6. — С. 735–784.