Письма А.Ф. Малиновского (1800-е гг.) как попытка автобиографии

Abstract

This article analyses the correspondence by Aleksei Fedorovich Malinovskii (1762–1840) from the point of view of his strategy of creating his new self as an authentic nobleman. Covering the 1800s, his letters to Count Nikolai Petrovich Sheremetev (1751–1809), held at the Russian State Historical Archive in St. Petersburg (RGIA), have not previously received significant scholarly attention as a coherent narrative that reveals the social and cultural dimensions of Malinovskii’s personality. His correspondence with other individuals is also drawn in order to demonstrate how these aspects developed in the next decades.

Keywords

• aleksei malinovskii
• correspondence
• social identity
• patronage
• state service.