Abstract:
For a long time, information about the stay of D. Kantemir and his family in the Oryol region in the Dmitrov estate was fragmentary. In the matter of systematizing information about the stay of Cantemir there in the second half of the twentieth century. local historians joined: Ivan Mitrofanovich Zhudin, Ivan Nikolaevich Muzalev. The works of historian S. Fomin, journalist and prose writer G. Alexandrov, specialists in related fields A. Pupareva, N. Koshevnikova, S. Minakova and others should also be mentioned here. The achievements of the Oryol local historians represent a little-studied page in the Cantemiriana region.