Genre and specific features of the book of memoirs by E. B. Khalezova. Part 2. Genealogy and Family History

Abstract

The article presents the second part of a comprehensive study of the book of memoirs by E. B. Khalezova as a work of non-fiction and a historical source. The goal is to show how the history of the family-related community of the Russian scientific intelligentsia is reconstructed in a memoir-autobiographical text. The significance of such works for the study of the history of the Russian family and the dynamics of family forms is determined. According to a number of literaryn characteristics, the work correlates with the family chronicle genre. It contains historical and biographical information about the Starynkevich and Borneman families, who were of noble origin. The history of parental and reproductive families is based on the biography of the prominent scientist I. D. Borneman-Starynkevich and the autobiography of her daughter. With all the differences, both families can be attributed to the type of “maternal family”. This source contains valuable information on the history of the families of the Russian intelligentsia. It also contributes to the understanding of how various communities called “family” change during a person's life and in the course of global and local historical processes.