Another famous historian N.I. Kostomarov wrote that "there is nothing in Russian history darker than the fate of Vyatka and her land." How was the Vyatka land equipped with Russian colonists? Veshtomov was one of the first to neglect the official point of view and tried to dispel the darkness into which the history of the Vyatka Territory was immersed. After a long collection, careful selection and final processing of annalistic sources in 1907-1908. he wrote "The History of Vyatchan...," undeservedly silent.