Tatyana Zotikovna
Matveeva

Tatiana Zotikovna Matveeva is a well-known bibliographer of the Russian Far East and local historian, the first organizer in 1968-1978 of the sector of local history bibliography of the Primorsky Krai Public Library named after A.M. Gorky, author of bibliographic indexes “Lenin and the Russian Far East”, “Party Envoys in the Russian Far East”, “Fishery of the Russian Far East” and others. She initiated the creation of the “Consolidated Catalog of Local History Books”, available in 13 large libraries of Vladivostok and still in demand in library and user environment. In her honor in 1999 Vladivostok held jubilee readings in honor of her 80th birthday.

After graduating from school in 1936, Tatyana entered the Oriental Faculty of the Russian Far East State University, and in 1937 she was expelled from it due to the arrest of her father. A few months after her father's arrest, her mother was arrested. Twenty-year-old Tatiana managed to avoid arrest, and she went to the Moscow region to her uncle Nikolai Nikolayevich Matveev-Bodrom. First she worked as a babysitter, and then began to work in the library. The war began. Tatyana graduated from nursing courses, but poor eyesight did not allow her to put her knowledge into practice. At night she was on duty on the roof of the library building, saving it from incendiary bombs.

At the age of twenty-five, in 1943, she managed to enter the Moscow Library Institute. She was often sick, had to leave the institute twice because of poor food and fatigue, but both times she found the strength to return. To help her mother, who lived in the settlement after the liberation, she worked part-time in the children's library in Zvenigorod, reading fairy tales to children. She studied English, read classics. She trusted her reflections to the pages of her diary, which she kept all her life.

In her personal archive there is a large notebook given by her father Zotik Nikolaevich to his daughter for her birthday at the age of 13 with a wish to write down the most important things in it. It is here, on page 187-188, that we find very vivid and emotional memories of the May 9, 1945 celebration in Red Square.

In 1947, Tatyana Zotikovna received a diploma, worked in libraries in the Polar region, Ukraine, Kazakhstan. After her father's rehabilitation in 1958 she returned to her beloved Vladivostok, worked in different libraries of the city, in 1968 she came to the Regional Library named after A.M. Gorky and actively engaged in organizing the sector of regional bibliography. A.M. Gorky Regional Library and actively engaged in the organization of the sector of local history bibliography.

Shortly before her death she bequeathed to her native “Gorkovka” an extensive personal archive dedicated to her large, talented family of poets, writers, bibliographers, historians from the famous Matveev clan in the Russian Far East.