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 ... Читать далее