Усложняя картину мира

Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История. 2024. Т. 65. № 2. С. 194–209.

Zubkova E., Нарский И. В., Orlova G.

The article is a collage of several texts by historians Galina Yankovskaya and Igor Narsky from the first decade of the twenty-first century. Two books and their reviews are used as material for a virtual discussion on key issues of visual historical research and new cultural history. Building on the discussion of the 2007-2008 monographs on Soviet artists of the Stalinist era and on private photographic practice in the USSR, participants in the imaginary discussion will address a range of issues of concern to them. These include the impact of the country's development in the 1990s on the research interests of young historians, the origins of the 'visual turn' and its relationship to the shift in interest of Russian historians from events, structures and processes to 'ordinary' people, and the prospects and difficulties of working with the image as a historical source. The fantasised discussion is dedicated to the anniversary of Galina Yankovskaya.  The article, which dedicated to the jubilee of Galina Yankovskaya, consists of two parts. In the first one, the author discusses the screen nature of the jubilee and treats it as a saturated phenomenon. The hero of the day’s statement, that a professional historian should enhance the complexity of the world picture, is contextualized and problematized. In the second part, the results of curating a biographical conversation with Galina Yankovskaya are presented in the form of nine screen-shorts. The life on the big river under late socialism and the river as a frame for the temporal experience of the historian are in focus.

Keywords: историк, experience, опыт, historian, life narrative, история жизни