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Эго-документ в культуре Серебряного века: Исследования и публикации
ИМЛИ РАН, 2025.
Editor-in-chief: Е. В. Глухова
The monograph is devoted to the autobiographical documents of poets and writers of the Silver Age: A.A. Blok, Andrei Bely, L.N. Andreev, D.S. Merezhkovsky, M.M. Prishvin, I.A. Bunin, and others. The authors of the articles examine the stylistic originality of letters, memoirs, autobiographies, diaries, and notebooks, and determine their significance in the culture of the turn of the century. Unknown letters by L.N. Andreev, D.V. Filosofov, S.A. Sviridova, and S.M. Solovyov are presented for the first time, as well as biographical materials by Vl. Piast and autobiographical notes by I.A. Bunin and L.L. Kobylinsky (Ellis); the reader will also be introduced to the notebooks of A.K. Gorsky and the diary entries of P.A. Florensky, as well as the memoirs of N.G. Chulkova. The monograph is intended for a wide range of readers interested in the literature and culture of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Chaban A., В кн.: Эго-документ в культуре Серебряного века: Исследования и публикации.: ИМЛИ РАН, 2025. С. 199–212.
The article reconstructs the work by S.K. Makovsky, “On Parnassus of the Silver Age,” using his memoirs. Makovsky’s notebooks show that one of the crucial sources of his memories was the poems, which, however, have significant specifics. The comparison of extracts with the real place of their publication shows that Makovsky did not use direct ...
Added: February 26, 2026
Rozhdestvenskaya E., Abramov R., Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии 2026 Т. 29 № 3 С. 244–274
The article presents an experimental study at the intersection of social anthropology and qualitative sociology. The empirical basis is a corpus of 18 short biographical sketches of collective farm peasant women from the village of Vysheley, Penza Region, created at the end of the Soviet period by school local historians and discovered by one of the authors during a ...
Added: October 7, 2026
Демиденко С. Ю., Иванова Е. Ю., Кильдюшов О.В. et al., Социологические исследования 2026 № 7 С. 44–59
The article presents materials from a discussion of approaches to studying ego-documents and the practice of their use in Russian sociological research. The discussion included the theoretical and methodological origins of this research area, N.N. Kozlova's contribution to its development, and the specifics of the formation of a scientific research school in the study of ...
Added: August 31, 2026
Popova I. P., Социологические исследования 2025 № 12 С. 66–79
Personal diaries from the period of the Great Patriotic War are increasingly being analyzed by researchers from various disciplines. The possibilities of wider use of such diaries as sources for sociological research, including changes in the status, role and capabilities of people during the war, are of interest. It is known that war as a ...
Added: March 2, 2026
Ermakova L., Вестник Удмуртского университета. Серия История и филология 2025 Т. 35 № 6 С. 1403–1422
The article publishes and analyzes the correspondence between the historian of antiquity Elena A. Millior (1900–1978) and the classical philologist Yakov M. Borovsky (1896–1994), covering the years 1946–1960 and preserved in the archives of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Bibliotheca Classica Petropolitana in St. Petersburg. ...
Added: January 26, 2026
Khusyainov T., В кн.: 80 лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне : электронный сборник материалов Всероссийской научно-практической конференции (г. Ишим, 15 мая 2025 г.).: Ишим: ИПИ им. П.П. Ершова (филиала) ТюмГУ, 2025. С. 103–108.
this work is aimed at studying a small fragment from the life of the famous Soviet and Russian pianist and teacher, laureate of many awards, Honored Artist of the RSFSR and People's Artist of the Russian Federation Naum Lvovich Starkman. The research is based on a postcard sent by the pianist's father in 1941 to ...
Added: December 22, 2025
Новосёлова Е. А., Русская литература 2025 № 2 С. 230–240
The article analyzes Yu. M. Nagibin’s novella Get up and Go (1987). The «bifurcation» of the official and unofficial line of Yu. M. Nagibin’s creative work in the early 1940s disrupted his creative identity, and the first work of perestroika era is an attempt to overcome the crisis and regain one’s place in the world. ...
Added: December 1, 2025
Galkina D., Orekhov B., Староверова П. В., Шаги/Steps 2026 Т. 12 № 3 С. 278–312
The study explores the thematic evolution of Russian-language personal diaries throughout the 20th century, utilizing the extensive digital corpus of the "Prozhito" archive. The research employs topic modeling to process and analyze a vast collection of diary entries that would be unmanageable for detailed scrutiny using traditional close-reading methods. This methodology enables the identification of ...
Added: November 28, 2025
Shmulevich N., Известия РАН. Серия литературы и языка 2023 Т. 82 № 6 С. 112–116
The article focuses on “the autobiographical code” in the “Neapolitan Novels” (“My Brilliant
Friend” (“L’amica geniale”, 2011), “The Story of a New Name” (“Storia del nuovo cognome”, 2012), “Those
Who Leave and Those Who Stay” (“Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta”, 2013) и “The Story of the Lost Child”
(“Storia della bambina perduta”, 2014) by Elena ...
Added: October 3, 2025
Любков В. Д., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2023 Т. 14 № 3(125) Статья 14
This article analyzes the leisure preferences of the Dmitrov merchant I. A. Tolchenov based on his autobiographical text "Journal or Note on the Life and Adventures of I. A. Tolchenov." The study shows how different leisure practices changed or remained the same throughout the Dmitrov merchant's life, based on his family, financial, and social status, ...
Added: October 2, 2025
Вачкова С. Н., Ermolaeva M., Istomina A. et al., М.: Экон-Информ, 2024.
The paper presents the results of the project "Active longevity of people of the "third age" in the focus of certain aspects of the urban social infrastructure of Moscow", conducted by the Research Institute of Urban Studies and Global Education of the Moscow State Pedagogical University with the participation of experts from the Moscow Mayor's ...
Added: September 29, 2025
Egorova G., Территория: журнал исторических исследований 2025 Т. 1 № 2 С. 276–319
This article presents a microhistorical study of a provincial Russian Orthodox priest Nikolai Petrov's life, through the lens of his wife Nadezhda Yakovetskaya's memoir. Dated 1970, her letter is a valuable source for understanding the fate of Russian clergy after 1917. The biography of Petrov as “an ordinary man” from rural intelligentsia, reflects all the ...
Added: September 22, 2025
Meshcheryakov A., М.: ООО "Лингвистика", 2025.
In the book by A.N. Meshcheryakov the translation of the autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901) "Fukuo Jiden" ("Autobiography of the Elder Fukuzawa") is presented for the first time in Russian. Fukuzawa was an outstanding educator who made a huge contribution to the modernization of Japan. His life fell on a turning point in Japanese history. ...
Added: September 13, 2025
Meshcheryakov A., Японские исследования 2025 № 2 С. 69–84
Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835—1901) is considered a “great enlightener.” This means that, after the opening of Japan in the mid 19th century, he did a lot to introduce Western culture and civilization to the Japanese. Many studies have been devoted to analyzing Fukuzawa's achievements in the field of enlightenment. At the same time, Fukuzawa's personality has not attracted much attention, which ...
Added: September 13, 2025