The publication of the teacher, historian, local historian Ivan Alexandrovich Revin, based on the family traditions of the indigenous Don peasants Revin and Mogilevsky, nonresident peasants Polozov and Smolyar, Cossacks of the village of Kamenskaya Skvortsov, Cossacks of the village of Kalitvenskaya Kudinov and Kambulov, as well as other informants, examines the events of Don history from the end of the 18th century to mid-20th century.