UNKNOWN EPISODE FROM LIFE OF D. M. KARBYSHEV. PHOTO FROM FAMILY ARCHIVE
The article concentrates on Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev, an educatee of the Siberian cadet corps, the future regular officer of the Russian Imperial Army and the future hero of the Great Patriotic War. Unknown episode of his life from the cadet period. In the summer of 1897, after graduating from the 6th form of the Siberian Cadet Corps, he stayed in Ust-Kamenogorsk in the family of his aunt, Vera Ilyinichna Shaitanova (nee Karbysheva), the wife of retired Lieuten-ant-General - Dmitry Afanasievich Shaytanov. Published and unpublished sources became the source base for the study of previously unknown biographical fact. Extrinsic value among them have Memorbooks and officer master records of the Siberian Cossack troops from the funds of the Historical Archive of the Omsk Region, as well as family stories and photographs that have been preserved in the author’s archives. The materials are of interest to historians reconstructing