Background
Dikarev Mitrofan Alekseevich was born on May 31, 1854 in Borisovka village, Valuisky Uyezd (now Borisovka, Belgorod, Russian Federation). He comes from the family of clergy.
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Dikarev Mitrofan Alekseevich was born on May 31, 1854 in Borisovka village, Valuisky Uyezd (now Borisovka, Belgorod, Russian Federation). He comes from the family of clergy.
Mitrofan studied at the Voronezh Theological School, in 1871 he graduated from Biruchensk Theological School. Until 1874 Dikarev studied at the Voronezh Theological Seminary.
In 1882-1890 he served in "Schetopismovod" (Score-writing system) Chancery of the Voronezh Provincial Statistical Committee, which located in the Volost Board in the Borisovka village, Valuisky Uyezd. Also in 1890-1893 Dikarev was a scribe in the provincial government. Since 1888 he published statistical information as well as collected "Little Russian Songs" in magazine “Voronezh Provincial Journal”. Mitrofan was the Memorable Book of the Voronezh Province editor for 1887, 1891 and 1892 years. Since 1893 he was an official of the Kuban regional government. In 1895 Dikarev was a member of the Voronezh Provincial Statistical Committee. Also he was a Secretary of the Society of amateurs studying the Kuban Region. Dikarev Mitrofan was the author of "Essay on Voronezh philistine dialect in comparison with the Ukrainian-Russian dialect" (Memorable Book of the Voronezh Province for 1892, a separate edition entitled "Voronezh Ethnographic Collection", Voronezh, 1891). In Yekaterinodar in 1894 he composed "A Program for the Ethnographic Study of People's Life in Connection with Hunger and Cholera". Mitrofan was published in the "Kiev Antiquity", "Ethnographic Review", "Kuban Collection". Dikarev's researches appeared in the "Ethnographic Collection", Lvov magazine "Zorya" in the Ukrainian language. He bequeathed his archive to the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lvov. Dikarev's activity was highly appreciated by the writer I. Franko. Since the mid-1990s in Krasnodar Region scientific Dikarev Readings take place.