information about this iconic and odious character was collected in the archives by my colleague victoria kovtsun , the first ethnic deportation in the russian empire on the conscience of an officer and the scientist akim zolotaryov, a man who, according to his beliefs, was a typical ideologist of russian imperialism history calls him the father of the concept of the geography of benevolence because of which hundreds of thousands of ukrainians, poles, jews, caucasians, germans, finns, and latvians, born in the then region of donskoy, part of which was stationed on the territory of modern ukrainian luhansk and donetsk regions, were forcibly evicted from their homes, the goldsmith first studied at the mykolaiv academy of the general staff, the place where the imperial russian army was joined later in at the same academy, he begins to teach his ideas about the power of great russia as a specialist in statistics and military geography , somewhere at the same time he invents geography an ideology of unbelief that just listen divides people into benevolent and potential traitors. and of course it only