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Рукописный перевод биографии графа А. И. Остермана. Его источники, контекст создания и особенности перевода
The article examines the historical, official, and textual contexts of the manusript that originated in the late 18th century in the Moscow Archive of the College of Foreign Affairs. The hand-written translation of the biography of Vice-Chancellor Andrei Ivanovich Osterman (1686--1747) was deposited in the personal archival fund of Alexei Fedorovich Malinovskii (1760-1840). The original biography belonged to the German lawyer and writer Hempel (Christian Friedrich Hempel, ? - 1757) and was first published in 1742. The contexts of the translation include the network of patron-client relations, in which Malinovskii, an employee of the Archive since 1780, was involved. The Archive had been one of the translation centers since its founding in the 1720s. Since the 1780s, its siginificance in this field had been growing, due also to the translation activities of officials under the leadership of Malinovskii, for whom translations, among them in off-time, was one of the ways to gain extra earning. The article demonstrates that the translation was not a pure exercise or a means of earnings but was also involved in some political interests of influential people close to the court and to the sphere of decision-making.
Both history and context of the translation of the biography of Vice-Chancellor Osterman illustrate the intersection of different spheres, private and official, in Russia in the 18th century.
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