Мемуары князя В. А. Друцкого-Соколинского как источник для изучения истории Костромской земли
Memoirs of Prince V. A. Drutskoy-Sokolinsky as a source for studying the history of the Kostroma land

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the pages of V. A. Drutsky-Sokolinsky’s memoirs devoted to the history and culture of the Kostroma land. The biographical information about the author, who for six years (1907-1913) served in Kostroma as an adviser to the provincial government, is being clarified and supplemented. The household, ethnographic, moral, biographical and socio-political layers of this source are revealed, the main themes and personalities that attract the author’s attention are considered. It is stated that an important feature of the memoirs of V. A. Drutsky-Sokolinsky lies in the organic connection of the experience of everyday life of the Kostroma philistine with the opinion of an official who knows well the administrative, economic, legal and social realities of provincial life. The author has his own political beliefs, his own opinion about various aspects of reality, but this does not make the memoirist’s view one-dimensional and tendentious. The features of the text as an important source for studying the culture of everyday life are noted. The author identifies the value and ideological guidelines that are revealed in the author’s narratives and that clearly characterize the mindset of the Russian aristocrat. The connection of the author's narrative and descriptive manner with the traditions of Russian literature is investigated. The undoubted literary talent of the author, who prefers household sketches and a moral essay to recreate the historical texture, is noted.

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