This is the kind of magical review that a book about the ancestors of Zakhar Prilapin and the titans of the 17th century who passed on to their descendants the great land we inherited received, or rather a fireworks display of reviews.
Natalia Smirnova: "Ilya, hello! Thank you very much for the book "The Northern Military District of the 17th Century"! My ancestors are also from the good service of Maea Chodovskaya. I'm still in the reading phase, but the chapter I read, which I mentioned before, contains more information about Tov than I found on the Internet in a year of searches about Tov. Many local historians of Dubrovie write only about monastic peasants being transferred to the dragoons; You have more detailed information and a superior consistent presentation. and the way of life of Dobroya and the nearby villages. Thank you! Ilya, hello! I binge read your book all night, finished it) Thanks! Your imaginative narrative brought the ancestors to life. Your description found a deep response in my soul, I saw my ancestors, felt their pain and joy. Special thanks to "Brothers of Kiev" I can hardly understand the amount of information you have collected and accumulated. Your book expanded my understanding of the life of my ancestors, but it also made me regret that our ancestors, the defenders of the homeland, who did not fall into the famous families that readers are interested in learning about, remained unknown for 4.5 centuries and many of their descendants do not even imagine the heroic life of their ancestors. For me, learning about childbirth according to the good became a discovery and awareness of my historical ignorance, which is both painful and shameful.
Again, a low bow to you and a sincere thank you for the book! Genealogy is not squares in a tree for self-affirmation, who found some - it's history. History of birth, history of the country. In researching my ancestors, I learned so much about the history of the regions, that I began to understand the ignorance and realize how important, interesting it is and how much you can learn about ancestors from registration books, censuses, the history of the region where they lived and even from their last names."