Cherkasovs (Keretskys): Feofan Ivanovich Cherkasov (1886-1938)
The paper focuses on one of the representatives of the Cherkasov family from Kereti, a participant of the First World War, a victim of political repression, FeofanIvanovichCherkasov (1886-1938). This work is the first attempt to summarize the available information and write the first biography of this person. The documents of the State archive of the Arkhangelsk region (Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation) were used as sources. The documents of the FSS archive for the Republic of Karelia (Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation) were also involved. From a methodological point of view, a descriptive method is widely used in the work, which allowed author to consider the information presented in fragments in order to restore the biographical picture of the life of FeofanIvanovichCherkasov. Besided this, a retrospective method was used, thanks to which we were able to consider the events in their chronological sequence. In conclusion, the author states that FeofanIvanovichCherkasov (1886-1938) is a man with one of the most tragic fates in the Cherkasov (Keret) family. At the age of 28, he was drafted into the active army of the Russian Empire during the First World War. He was captured, was released from it in connection with the end of the world conflict in 1918. He returned to Soviet Russia. During the Holodomor of 1933, he was convicted in a falsified case and sent to the Gulag for the construction of the White Sea Canal. After serving his sentence, he returned home, but soon in 1938 he was arrested again on a falsified case and has already been shot. At the time of the shooting, he was only 51 years old.