DN Bantysh-Kamensky conducted historical research, while at the office at the office of the governor Prince NG Repnin - military governor of Little Russia. He described the many areas in which to commit remarkable events visited Chyhyryn in Subotiv, visited the ruins of the house Khmelnitsky, studied local archives in Poltava and Chernihiv received many interesting chronicles and letters from local landowners: Alekseeva, Chepy, Shafonsky, Rigelmana...