Инструменты памяти: лаборатория мемуаров Андрея Болотова

Abstract

The article discusses a range of issues related to the technological side of memoir writing. A comparative analysis of Andrei Bolotov’s Life and Adventures, various manuscripts (especially autobiographical texts) and archival documents allows us to clarify and adjust the traditional view on Bolotov’s memoirs as being created on the basis of diary entries; to reveal how some of the plots of his memoirs are primarily based on memories and to characterize them as manifestations of a communicative memory; and to evaluate which memory tools are most relevant for Bolotov (books, drawings, things), and how they occupy an intermediate position between personal remembering and documentary evidence.

Keywords

• andrei bolotov
• memoirs
• diaries
• correspondence
• communicative memory