Governor’s Reports to the Supreme Name of the Yenisei Province in the XIX – early XX centuries: Source Criticism Capability

In this article on the basis of archival sources the governors' reports of the Yenisei province in the XIX -early XX centuries are considered.Through the cognitive theory of humanitarian knowledge the significant information potential of this historical source is revealed.In view of the openly debated issue in the historical scientific society about the potential of governor's reports as a historical source, it is important to actualize the issue of studying governor's reports as a specific representative document of regional character from the perspective of its comprehensive analysis depending on the research topic.The specificity of the representation the image of the region, in this case -Yenisei province, is the subject of special study.Due to the multidimensional nature of the governor's reports, the authors conclude that it is necessary to verify the obtained knowledge on multilevel: not only by comparing statistics with metadata in the records of other departments, but also by checking with documents that have narrative potential: doctors' opinions about the situation in the entrusted territory and other key figures in the history of the province.Thus, the researchers raise the question of expanding the range of historical sources to be compared with the report.The article reveals typical "notes" left by civil servants inside the text.They were, as a rule, notes in pencil, which were important because of the specific purpose of the person who read or checked the report.The importance of such verification lies in the fact that gubernatorial reports are documents of collective labor, a channel of communication between the region and the central government.The informational potential of governor's reports is much broader than a formulaic list and textual content.The integral image of the Yenisei province is formed by analyzing the hidden information inside the reports.This allowed researchers to identify the unique terminology for this locus, which has regional specifics.