Collections of reports Readings in memory of V.V. Iofe

Content:

Preface. . 3

Benjamin Iofe
Rehabilitation as a historical problem . . 6

Alexander Daniel
The concept of rehabilitation in the context of political developments in the late 1980s – early 1990s . . 10

Robert Sperfeld
Shedding light on East Germany's communist past and rehabilitating the victims of GDR political repression . . 19

Igor Sazhin
Benefits of the repressed according to the research of the legal group of the International "Memorial". Theses of the report. . 28

Yuri Gavryusov
Legislative resolution of the consequences of the totalitarian regime in the Russian Federation . . 31

Vladislava Vychugzhanina
The attitude of local authorities towards former prisoners in the 1940s - 1950s using the city of Ukhta as an example. . 36

Dominic Mayer
Overcoming the consequences of the totalitarian past. Rehabilitation of the victims of totalitarianism. Critical understanding of the history of the GDR. Overcoming the consequences of the "second German dictatorship": first results . . 41

Irina Flige
After the Rehabilitation Law: Transformation of Public Consciousness . . 55

Fedor Lushenko
Monuments to the victims of political repressions of the Soviet state on the territory of the Komi Republic . . 62

Mikhail Rogachev
Memorial work in the Komi Republic . . 72

Stanislav Micke
On the importance of exhumation and graves for the memory of victims . . 75

Sergey Kropachev
Book of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repressions in Krasnodar Region: History of Creation . . 82

Roman Vladislav Bar
The experience of the Borovichi Society in perpetuating the memory of the soldiers of the Home Army – prisoners of camp No. 270 . . 88

I. Yu. Moiseeva
Presentation of the topic "History of political repressions" in the National Museum of the Komi Republic. Experience and prospects . . 95

Sergey Shevyrin
History Lessons in the Gulag Museum From the Experience of the Perm-36 Memorial Museum of the History of Political Repressions . . 102

Evgeniya Zelenskaya
Poster exhibition "Ukhta. 1929-1956" . . 105

Tatiana Afanasyeva
Experience of creating a camp exposition . . 108

Anton Belovol
History of the construction of the city of Ukhta in the Komi Republic in the 1930s - 1950s in the collections of the museum of the Ukhta State Technical University . . 113

Irina Kotileva
“1000 Letters about War and Peace”: First Steps to the Creation and Experience of Presenting a CO-Project in Russian and European Society . . 118

Andrea Zemskov-Zuge
Memory, Narrative, and “Historical Truth”: What Can We Learn from Oral Sources? . . 123

Content:

Boris Belenkin . . 3

Valery Golofast
Concepts of the individual and the space of biographies . . 5

Andrey Alekseev
What are “life protocols” and why are they needed? . 18

Boris Bessonov
The phenomenon of biographies in science and practice (literary criticism specifics). Theses of the report . . 37

Oleg Bozhkov
Genealogy and Biographical Data: Lessons from Genealogical Expeditions . . 40

Abram Reitblat
The biographer and his biographer . . 53

Irina Flige
Fact and Event in Gulag Biographies: Interpretations in Sources . . 63

Boris Belenkin
Myth as a source . . 64

Alexander Daniel, Gennady Kuzovkin
Compiling Biographies: Between Ethics and Academicism. On the Experience of Working on the “Biographical Dictionary of Dissidents of Central and Eastern Europe” . . 91

Konstantin Morozov
Photographs of operational records as a specific source in the biographies of the “socialist resistance” to the Soviet regime: Based on materials from the “Album of members of the Central Committee and active members of the PSR” of the Cheka-OGPU. . . 105

Ute Weinmann
Surviving and Talking About the Experience: Interviews with Ostarbeiters . . 118

Elena Chikadze
Biography and context . . 127

Olga Tkach
The Working Dynasty: The Ideological Project of the Soviet State . . 136

Sofia Chuikina
The problem of name and family memory in the families of “former” nobles in the 1920s – 1950s . . 150

Round table . . 173

Content:

Abram Reitblat
Moral motivations of the biographer. . 3

Boris Belenkin
Marginal Biographies: Violating Vocabulary Patterns. . 9

Boris Dubin
Limits and Resources of Autobiographical Writing. . 19

Gabor T. Rittersporn
Life path, individual, mass, history, biography and author. . 29

Boris Kolonitsky
Insults to the imperial family and anti-dynastic “popular” rumors during the First World War. . 36

Marina Sorokina
"Witnesses of Nuremberg": from questionnaire to biography. . 50

Peter Mitzner
Literary historian and biography. . 64

Oleg Bozhkov
Population of the biography: ours and others. . 69

Irina Flige
Gulag as a creator of a biographical source. Biographies of the Gulag: the norm and the marginal. 79

Nina Tsvetaeva
The value dimension of biographical narratives. . 100

Elena Petrovskaya
Photography in a biographical context. . 109

Gennady Kuzovkin
Forced disappearance: based on materials from departmental instructions of the NKVD-MVD (1930–1950s) . . 116

Anna Shor-Chudnovskaya
The political significance of the biographical method. . 131

Nikita Eliseev
Strelnikov-Sokolnikov. Echo of the biography of the People's Commissar of Finance in Boris Pasternak's novel "Doctor Zhivago" . . 141

Alexander Margolis
Biographical Dictionary of Political Prisoners of the Second Half of the 19th Century . . 156

Konstantin Morozov
“Socialists and anarchists - participants in the resistance to the Bolshevik regime...”: methodological and source study problems of compiling a dictionary. . 162

Dmitry Severyukhin
"Samizdat Leningrad. 1950s - 1980s": an attempt at a literary encyclopedia . . 179

Denis Shilov
Biographical information in regional encyclopedias. . 185

Oleg Bozhkov
Sketch of a biography (portrait) of a friend. Valery Borisovich Golofast. . 193

Content:

Abram Reitblat
Obituary as a biographical genre. . 3

Boris Belenkin
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Yezhov. Molotov and Stalin in the Fate of A. Shlyapnikov. An attempt at a detailed commentary on a clarified fact for a brief biographical note, which was never included in its final version. .11

Olga Brednikova
The Value and “Price” of Biography: People and Things at a Flea Market. . 22

Elena Meshcherkina
Experienced – Narrated – Presented: the politics of memorization and medialization . . 35

Alexander Daniel
Samizdat biography of the text. . 45

Nina Tsvetaeva
The language of biographies in the context of socio-cultural changes. . 57

Marina Sorokina
"The Defectors," or How Sergei Chakhotin Returned to the USSR. 73

Peter Mitzner
Years that were not. The Stalin period in the memoirs of Polish writers. . 88

Kirill Kuznetsov
Biography of a generation as an artistic image. . 98

Felix Yakubson
Video diaries as a source of biographical information. . 104

Nadezhda Yolkina, Vladimir Rubtsov
Electronic biography: The staff of the Library of the Academy of Sciences for two hundred years (1714–1914) . . 110

Konstantin Morozov
Methodological problems and experience of creating a historical-biographical and educational website of “socialist resistance” . . 120

Adele Lindenmayer
Panin's Legacy: Childhood of Countess Sophia Vladimirovna Panina. 128

Alexander Chuvyurov
Vasily Nikolaevich Gichev - life and fate. 139

Oleg Bozhkov
Diversity of intellectual biography. . 146

Tatiana Afanasyeva
Biographical annotation of the Gulag exhibits. . 157

Lelde Neimane
Video evidence in the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia. . 162

Content:

Andrey Alekseev
Biography. Science. History (towards the creation of a collective portrait of Russian sociologists) . . 3

Boris Belenkin
"The Erzinkyan Affair" and the End of the "Great Silent" . . 23

Prelate Bronislaw Czaplicki
Biography in the process of glorification (beatification) of Catholic martyrs. . 35
Oleg Bozhkov

Who is more valuable to mother history? (Soviet period: declared and actual state values) . . 40

Anna Shor-Chudnovskaya
Biography of my country. . 47

Martin Malek
Personal biography as the history of the whole country: “a special case” and “overcoming the past” on the example of Austria. Drama in three acts. . 59

Svetlana Mintz, Irina Rebrova
The biographical method in domestic socio-humanitarian studies of recent years and changes in memoir narration of modern times. . 64

Sevil Huseynova
Actualization of Ethnicity in the Biographical Interview. 73

Elena Rozhdestvenskaya-Meshcherkina
Beyond the Front Line: Women's Stories of War Experiences. 85

Marek Radziwon
"A compromise figure was needed" Chairman of the Union of Polish Writers Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz in light of the materials of the State Security Service . . 97

Nina Tsvetaeva
Biographical Discourse: Evidence of Cultural Change. 111

Nadezhda Cherednichenko
The Importance of Biographies in the Concept of Regional History. . 121

Alexey Emelin, Margarita Emelina
Life in naval folklore: Captain 1st rank Balk – legendary and real. . 130

Robert Croskey
The Daughter and the Commissar. . 139

Andrey Kruchinin
"The Diary of Count F. A. Keller": a unique source or an emigrant apocrypha? . . 147

Julia Belozerova
Biography of Fear. . 157

Content:

Abram Reitblat
What doesn't make it into a biography? . . 3

Boris Belenkin
Spiritual Deputies: “Biographical Manipulations” as a Result of Repressions against Clergymen in the 1920s–1950s. Several Cases . . 12

Nailya Bekzhanova, Anna Zhabreva, Naile Sidorenko
On the problem of bibliographical biographies. . 30

Tatyana Voronina
To Be a Hero of One's Country: Soviet Heroic Discourse in the Context of Biographical Interviews. 40

Stanislav Dudkin
The specifics of the biography of a nuclear physicist: withdrawal from the world and return to the world . . 48

Oleg Bozhkov
Soviet and post-Soviet in the consciousness of rural leaders. 53

Sevil Huseynova
The life story of a leader in the context of the collective biography of a rural community . . 66

Boris Kolonitsky
Conspiracy resonance: Spy mania as a need (the “Myasoedov case” in the public consciousness, 1915–1917) . . 77

Sergey Rumyantsev
Before and after emigration: The ideology of the continuity of biography as a personal project . . 96

Petr Mitzner
Autobiography in a borderline situation: about the diary of Janusz Korczak. . 109

Ekaterina Kosyakova
On the sources of studying the biographies of suburban peasants (1920s) . . 126

Maria Matskevich
The phenomenon of memory of Galina Starovoitova. . 134

Alexander Okun
A. Nevins and the Art of Biography (biographical genre in American historiography). . 143

Olga Rosenblum
Channels of experience and the structure of experience in the “normative biography” (based on “Zoya” by M. Aliger). 149

Dmitry Smirnov
Rubbing Against the Grain: Doubt as a Fact in Walter Benjamin's Biography . . 156

Nina Tsvetaeva
Biographical narratives of the Soviet era: models of distancing from ideological norms . . 165

Prelate Bronislaw Czaplicki
The work of priest Pavel Mayo OI (1905–1983) on the biography of Exarch Leonid Fedorov. . . 176

Olga Shabarshina
Personal library as a reflection of biography. . 182

Andrey Alekseev
Biographical discourse: an act of communication, a reflection of reality and self-expression (notes on the “memory relay race”) . . 190

Andrzej Paczkowski
Three Faces of Józef Światło. On the History of Jewish Communists in Poland. 220

Content:

Martin Malek
The Military Biography of Günter Grass or (Not) Overcoming One's Own Past . . 3

Boris Belenkin
Death in Encirclement: The Militia as a Way to “Correct” Biography. . 12

Peter Mitzner
Russian Writers in Pre-War Poland: The Problem of Polish Sources . . 25

Anna Shor-Chudnovskaya
Down to the smallest detail: The novel document "Diaries" as an example of resistance . . 33

Anna Koldushko
Biography of a repressed party member. . 40

Galina Orlova
Death as a Biographical Fact: On One Lost Motive of a Small Political Obituary . . 51

Natalia Demina
Ethos of Russian Sociology 1977–2007: Content Analysis of Obituaries and Anniversary Articles . . 59

Andrey Alekseev
Memory individual and collective, family and historical (current problem of correlation) . . 72

Nailya Bekzhanova, Anna Zhabreva, Naile Sidorenko
Profession as an object of biographical writing. On the example of domestic biographical and biobibliographical dictionaries and reference books of 1956-2000. 90

Konstantin Divisenko
Biographies of young people in the collection of the Biographical Fund. . 100

Alena Kozlova
“Love under the sign of CHSIR”: The influence of traumatic experience of family history on the fate of women of the second generation . . 111

Natalia Bazhenova
Works of scientists of the USSR Academy of Sciences during the blockade period: The problem of anonymity. . 123

Ekaterina Makhotina
"Executioner" or "Victim"? The Development of the Discourse on the Victims of Stalinism in German Society Based on the Example of the Dispute over the Museumification of Special Camp 7/1 in the Sachsenhausen Memorial Complex. 131

Maxim Skorokhodov
Scientific biography as a research genre. . 139

Irina Ostrovskaya
Glorification of the Unknown: Images of Repressed Parents in Children’s Oral Memories. 148

Nina Tsvetaeva
What the “Human Documents” Say: Reassessing Values in an Era of Change . . 156

Natalia Kolesnik
Reconstruction of biographies of unusual people. . 166

Julia Krasheninnikova
Family Archive: Specifics of Compiling a Biography. Using the Krasheninnikov Family Archive as an Example . . 174

Nina Ponomareva
Nikolai Vasilyevich Zdobnov (1888–1942): The right to a name. . 183

Dmitry Smirnov
“Consciousness of Visions” under the Pressure of Deprivation: Walter Benjamin in Work on Passages in 1934–1940. 188

Anna Zhelnina, Tatyana Barandova, Alexandra Kasatkina,
Anastasia Rogova, Anna Klepikova
A Great Event as a Rite of Passage. The Closure of the European University in the Biographies of Its Students: “We” and the Outside World . . 197

Petr Bazanov
The Solonevich Brothers: Documents and Legends (based on the collection of V.V. Iofe, Memorial Research Center) . . 206

Boris Komissarov
Forward... into the past: O. N. Ken on social archaism in the USSR and post-Soviet Russia . . 241

Content:

Andrey Kruchinin
Literary portraits of S.N. Bulak-Balakhovich and their place in his biography. . 3

Boris Belenkin
"Tanka! Tanechka! Tanya!.." Notes in the margins of the poem by Naum Korzhavin and the biography of Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova . . 14

Alexey Emelin, Margarita Emelina
The Class of 1911 of the Naval Corps: Strokes towards a collective biography . . 33

Galina Orlova
Psychiatric history as a biography: the narrative structure of a clinical case . . 42

Alexander Okun
Why Autobiographies Are Written: The Case of Henry Adams . . 55

Monica Vujchak
Poland in the biography of Joseph Brodsky . . 60

Petr Bazanov
N.I. Ulyanov: Official Soviet biography, emigrant version and reality . . 73

Konstantin Divisenko
Religious and occult in autobiography . . 89

Zina Gimpelevich
Valentin Innokentyevich Annensky-Krivich (1880–1936). . 95

Maria Belousova
Dreams as a reality of life . . 104

Daria Dimke
Soviet Childhood: Model for Assembly . . 114

Irina Ostrovskaya
Letters from and to the camp: ten-year correspondence between prisoner Lev Mishchenko and Muscovite Svetlana Ivanova . . 120

Natalia Bazhenova
Collective biography of the Soviet generation of academic librarians of the second half of the 20th century: Project of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences . . 129

Olga Reznikova
Biography of a city: the 1920s in the toponymy and memory of Munich . . 131

Andrey Alekseev
Theses on the biography and co-existence of man . . 142

Alexander Margolis
The first island of the Gulag archipelago . . 146

Josephine von Zitzewitz
Silver Age in the poetry of the unofficial culture of the 1970s: V. Krivulin and A. Mironov . . 151

Maxim Skorokhodov
Identification of sources and determination of their degree of reliability as a stage of biographical research . . 161

Olga Gerasimova
Memoirs of the son of a repressed man, front-line soldier, graduate of the history department of Moscow State University, teacher A.L. Katz (1922–1979). . 167

Alexander Petrov
The Fate of Zaamurets: New Data on the Biography of Colonel Nikolai Vasilyevich Orlov . . 173

Natalia Kruk
Investigative file as a source of biographical information . . 184

Content:

Abram Reitblat
Stages and sources of construction of biographical narrative (based on biographies of F.V. Bulgarin) . . 3

Boris Belenkin
Biographer(s) at a Dead End: Biography of a Swindler and the Circumstances of the Time. The Cases of A. Pirro and Z. Dvoiris . . 15

Maxim Skorokhodov
Articles on "minor characters" of personal encyclopedias: selection and structuring of material . . 25

Rosalia Cherepanova
Biographical text in the space of intertextuality. . 33

Olga Tikhovskaya
Stereotypes and myths in the context of individual history: on the problem of reconstructing the biography of A. O. Gavronsky (1888–1958) . . 40

Elena Strukova, Ilya Kuchanov
Biography as a factor in the success of an election campaign. . 48

Marina Pugacheva, Mikhail Rozhansky
The Third Soviet Generation: Biography and Geography. . 54

Victor Gurevich, Natalya Kruk
Foreign nationals in the Gulag . . 62

Olga Bessmertnaya
How to tell the biography of a scoundrel? ("Muslim Azef", or Lenin's Contemporary) . . 75

Valentina Korzun
Biography of a scientist in the interior of professorial culture: the case of I. A. Lappo-Danilevsky . . 90

Elena Tsypileva
S. I. Sobolevsky: a portrait instead of a biography. . 103

Mikhail Roshchin
Richard Sorge: In Search of the Biography of an Intelligence Officer. 114

Olga Rosenblum
“The Former,” “History,” and Other Ways of Highlighting the Past in Bulat Okudzhava’s Poems about Arbat . . 123

Alexander Petrov
Baron Alexey Pavlovich Budberg and his "Diary" . . 135

Petr Mitzner
"You can't count on the intelligence of people with weapons in their hands." The fate and research method of Michal Borwicz . . 146

Irina Obukhova-Zelinskaya
Yuri Annenkov – creator of biographical myths and object of mythologization . . 152

Marina Litavrina
Gulag for D'Artagnan: the fate of a Frenchman in Stalin's Russia. 161

Andrey Kruchinin
"Yuzik": General Bulak-Balakhovich 2nd - brother of his brother. . 171

Sergey Fokin
Documents don’t burn – they’re simply not read. Biologist S. I. Metalnikov (1870–1946) . . 181

Pavel Alipov
Antique scholar M.I. Rostovtsev in exile: a starting point or consolidation of the status quo? . . 190

Elena Yushkova
Duncan's autobiography and contemporary world Duncan studies. . 198

Content:

Irina Flige
Biography of the monument to the victims of Soviet terror. . 3

Sevil Vekilova
The Impact of Political Repression on the Life of a Multigenerational Family. . 36

Mikhail Rogachev
Books of memory of victims of political repression as a biographical source . . 44

Oleg Nikolaev
Biography in the Mirror of Everyday Writing Practices. . 46

Anna Barkova
Levashovsky Memorial as a Biographical Source. . 61

Alina Zakharova
Biography of the Tikhonov “photographic dynasty” in the context of prosopographical research . . 67

Maxim Skorokhodov
Literary criticism as a source of biographical information. . 74

Veronica Jobert
The life and creative path of Natalia Iosifovna Ilyina: Strokes to the biography of a repatriate. . 81

Natalia Kruk
Prisoners – Stalin Prize Laureates. . 88

Nadezhda Slepkova
From the private life of academician F.D. Pleske. . 103

Maria Krotova
"A Soviet biography must be earned": the return of Nikolai Ustryalov . . 112

Oksana Snytko
Completion of the State Archives of the Novgorod Region with documents of personal origin: results and prospects. 120

Petr Mitzner
The Shepherd of Communist Poland. About the Diary of the Primate of Poland Stefan Wyszynski . . 128

Nikita Kuznetsov
A Sailor in the Desert. A Sharp Turn in the Emigrant Biography of Lieutenant V. A. Shumovich . . 134

Leonid Obukhov
The fate of the Polish engineer Joseph Vecherek. . 143

Alexander Reznik
“We must protect the leaders”: the ailing Leon Trotsky as an object of concern for the masses . . 149

Mikhail Roshchin
The fate of Dr. A. A. Zamkov. . 155

Tatyana Kosinova
Petersburg in the biography of Józef Czapski: facts and omissions. . 161

Olga Tikhovskaya
Biography of a Gulag Prisoner as a Story of Intercultural Transformation: Russian American Victor German in Search of Identity . . 170

Sergey Fokin
Sergei Stepanovich Chakhotin – a citizen of Europe. . 178

Content:

Andrey Alekseev
“There is no objective truth about a person, because he is a subject...” . 3

Boris Belenkin
In the absence of death. On some features of the life stories (second half of the 1950s – mid-1980s) of Soviet state and party figures – victims of political repressions. . 8

Marco Clementi
Nuto Revelli – the creator of Italian oral history. . 22

Alexander Margolis
In memory of Herzen. . 29

Petr Bazanov
A Man Without a Biography: Diy Yuryevich Repin . . 35

Olga Rosenblum
Discussions on biographical categories in the magazine “Literary Critic”: “Conversation about the hero” by Elena Usievich . . 43

Dmitry Rublev
Autobiography and biography as forms of resistance to the policy of a totalitarian state. On the example of anarchist and political prisoner A. N. Andreev. . 50

Adam Michnik
The thorny road of a dissident: Willy Brandt's two Polish visits. . 59

Evgeniya Zvonareva
Autobiographical collage – the book by Vsevolod Volin “Unknown Revolution” . . 73

Victor Chebanov
The life and fate of the flagship mechanical engineer G.D. Lyakhov. . 78

Victor Gurevich, Natalya Kruk
From the first tractor to the first lunar rover. Through the GULAG. . 86

Sergey Fokin
Forgotten Life. Vladimir Timofeevich Shevyakov (1859–1930) . . 98

Dmitry Kozlov
The fate of S.K. Pirogov. “Accidents” in the creation of a biographical narrative . . 110

Elena Strukova
Biography as a joke: the adventures of the cat Dorofey. . 116

Elena Yushkova
“I will not bring you either an umbrella or a blanket.” Isadora Duncan in the unpublished memoirs of the forgotten Soviet writer Fabian Garin “Alone with the Past” . . 121

Maxim Skorokhodov
Responses to Death as Materials for a Biography. . 131

Fedor Dubshan
Fragments of Life. Reflections of a Journalist on the Creation of Biographical Materials in Newspaper Periodicals . . 140

Содержание:

От составителей. . 9

Автобиографии

Мартин Малек
Военная биография Гюнтера Грасса, или (Не)преодоление собственного прошлого . . 14

Петр Мицнер
Автобиография в пограничной ситуации: о дневнике Януша Корчака . . 24

Рашит Янгиров
К биографии поэта Константина Оленина. . 43

Агиография

Ольга Розенблюм
Каналы опыта и структура переживания в «нормативной биографии» (на материале «Зои» М. Алигер) . . 52

о. Бронислав Чаплицкий
Биография в процессе прославления (беатификации) католических мучеников . . 60

Надежда Чередниченко
Значение биографий в концепции региональной истории (на примере истории Кубани) . . 65

Биографии биографов

Марко Клементи
Нуто Ревелли — создатель итальянской устной истории. . 77

Ирина Флиге
Гулаг как создатель биографического источника. Биографии Гулага: норма и маргинальность . . 84

о. Бронислав Чаплицкий
Работа священника-иезуита Павла Майо над биографией экзарха Леонида Федорова . . 109

Биография от А до Я

Андрей Кручинин
«Юзик»: Генерал Булак-Балахович 2-й – брат своего брата . . 117

Никита Кузнецов
Моряк в пустыне. Крутой поворот эмигрантской биографии лейтенанта В.А. Шумовича . . 127

Сергей Фокин
Документы не горят — их просто не читают. Биолог С. И. Метальников. . 137

Источники

Петр Базанов
Братья Солоневичи: документы и легенды (на основе коллекции В.В. Иофе, НИЦ «Мемориал»). Комментарии И. П. Воронина . . 149

Александр Даниэль
Биография самиздатского текста. . 186

Алексей Емелин, Маргарита Емелина
Жизнь во флотском фольклоре: капитан 1 ранга Балк – легендарный и реальный . . 201

Константин Морозов
Фотографии оперативного учета как специфический источник в биографике «социалистического сопротивления»
советскому режиму. На материалах «Альбома членов ЦК и активных членов ПСР» ВЧК-ГПУ . . 211

Галина Орлова
Психиатрический анамнез как биография: нарративное устройство клинического случая. . 221

Коллективная биография

Ольга Бредникова
Ценность и «цена» биографии: люди и вещи на блошином рынке. . 237

Севиль Гусейнова
История жизни лидера в контексте коллективной биографии сельской общины . . 253

Наталия Демина
Этос российской социологии 1977–2007 гг. Контент-анализ некрологов и юбилейных статей . . 264

Алексей Емелин, Маргарита Емелина
Выпуск Морского корпуса 1911 года: штрихи к коллективной биографии . . 277

Марина Пугачева, Михаил Рожанский
Третье советское поколение: биография и география. . 286

Логика биографии

Дмитрий Козлов
Судьба С.К. Пирогова. «Случайности» в создании биографического нарратива . . 297

Татьяна Косинова
Петербург в биографии Юзефа Чапского: факты и умолчания. . 303

Марина Сорокина
«Свидетели Нюрнберга»: от анкеты к биографии. . 312

Ольга Тиховская
Биография узника Гулага как история межкультурной трансформации: русский американец Виктор Герман в поисках идентичности . . 331

Александр Чувьюров
Василий Николаевич Гичев – жизнь и судьба. . 340

Метатеория

Андрей Алексеев
Биографический дискурс: акт общения, отображение реальности и изъявление себя (заметки об «эстафете памяти») . . 351

Олег Божков
Генеалогия и биографические данные: уроки генеалогических экспедиций . . 385

Валерий Голофаст
Концепции индивида и пространство биографий. . 399

Абрам Рейтблат
Биографируемый и его биограф (к постановке проблемы) . . 413

Ирина Флиге
Факт и событие в биографиях Гулага: интерпретации в источниках . . 423

Нарративы

Олег Божков
Советское и постсоветское в сознании сельских руководителей . . 438

Борис Дубин
Границы и ресурсы автобиографического письма (по запискам Евгении Киселевой) . . 451

Олег Николаев
Биография в зеркале бытовых письменных практик . . 463

Елена Рождественская-Мещеркина
По ту линию фронта: женские рассказы о военном опыте. . 479

Политическая биография

Мартин Малек 
Личная биография как история всей страны: «частный случай» и «преодоление прошлого» на примере Австрии. Драма в трех действиях . . 493

Адам Михник
Тернистая дорога диссидента: два польских визита Вилли Брандта. . 498

Петр Мицнер
Пастырь коммунистической Польши. О дневнике примаса Польши Стефана Вышиньского . . 514

Марек Радзивон
«Нужна была компромиссная фигура». Председатель Союза польских писателей Ярослав Ивашкевич в свете материалов Службы госбезопасности . . 521

Словари

Наиля Бекжанова, Анна Жабрева, Наиле Сидоренко
К проблеме библиографирования биографий. . 538

Александр Даниэль, Геннадий Кузовкин
Составление биографий: между этикой и академизмом.На опыте работы над «Биографическим словарем диссидентов Центральной и Восточной Европы» . . 348

Александр Марголис
Биобиблиографический словарь политкаторжан второй половины ХIХ века . . 564

Дмитрий Северюхин
«Самиздат Ленинграда. 1950–1980-е». Опыт литературной энциклопедии . . 572

Смерть в биографии

Борис Беленкин
В отсутствии смерти. О некоторых особенностях жизнеописания (второй половины 1950-х – середины 1980-х) советских государственных и партийных деятелей – жертв политических репрессий . . 582

Геннадий Кузовкин
Принуждение к исчезновению. По материалам ведомственных инструкций НКВД-МВД. (1930–1950-е) . . 596

Галина Орлова
Смерть как биографический факт: об одном утраченном мотиве малого политического некролога . . 615

Абрам Рейтблат
Некролог как биографический жанр. . 624

Авторы сборника. . 634

Вениамин Викторович Иофе. . 637

Content:

Andrey Alekseev
“My memory is short...” (Individual experience of compiling a family chronicle) . . 3

Petr Bazanov
Residents of the village of Kellomäki: repressions of 1939–1941. 15

Ekaterina Burla
Old-timers of the Moscow region: “completely Soviet” people? . . 21

Alexander Burov
An example of social creativity of the first wave of Russian emigration. Strokes to the biography of Ivan and Tamara Lagovsky (based on materials from the Paris archive of the Russian Union of Christians of Russia). . 37

Marco Clementi
The history of the ship "Pencho" and the fate of its passengers. . 45

Natalia Kruk
The last sharashki - STB MVD in Metallostroy. . 51

Karine Maranjyan
Japanese repressed in the USSR in the 1930s: “collective biography” . . 64

Alexander Margolis
On the history of the execution of the Grand Dukes in the Peter and Paul Fortress. . 74

Elena Rozhdestvenskaya
Engram of Afghanistan: what do Afghan veterans and society prefer to remember about the fallen "Afghans" . . 80

Nadezhda Slepkova
“But they didn’t say the place...” Anatoly Esperovich Serebryakov in his mother’s diaries. . 98

Sergey Fokin
"What can I tell you about myself?" The life and fate of zoologist K. N. Davydov. 109

Irina Khmelnitskaya
Legal scholar E. V. Vaskovsky: the fate of a scientist in the context of political changes . . 123

Victor Chebanov
The life path of the historian I. I. Lappo: Tsarskoe Selo – Petersburg – Yuryev – Voronezh – Prague – Kaunas – Dresden . . 131

Content:

Petr Bazanov
Statements from the Gulag as a biographical source. . 3

Oleg Bozhkov, Svetlana Ignatova
Making sense of the unpredictable past. . 19

Konstantin Godunov
The play by A.V. Lunacharsky "Oliver Cromwell" in the context of Soviet political history . . 33

Mikhail Gorinov
Russian doctors in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes / Yugoslavia: Biographical dictionary and questionnaires (1918-1946) . . 39

Alexander Daniel
One of 25 thousand: the fate of Alexey Ivanovich Krupin . . 43

Natalia Ivanovskaya
Letters as a source for studying personal history (based on the correspondence between L.L. Kapitsa and P.L. Kapitsa. 1921–1938) . . 54

Marco Clementi
Archives of the fascist political police – Carabinieri in Rhodes. . 64

Natalia Kruk
OKB-196. From the history of the OTB-OKB OGPU-NKVD-MVD for the creation of submarines. . 72

Martin Malek
Johan Laidoner: Soldier and Politician in the Service of Estonia . . 87

Karine Maranjyan
The story of one book about Japan from the leader's personal library. . 91

Mikhail Martynov
The Phenomenon of Anonymity in Russian Anarchism. . 98

Petr Mitzner
The Secret Biography of Henryk Józewski. . 114

Alexander Ostrovsky
Petr Yakir. "Dance on the Edge of a Knife" . . 122

Nikolay Petrov
Service of Archpriest Anthony Ozerov in the village of Levocha, Novgorod province . . 132

Grete Rebstock
To Speak at the End of Life. Based on materials from the online archive “Forced Labor 1939–1945. Memories and History” . . 138

Konstantin Semenov
Everyday life of military emigration in the diary of Alexei Alexandrovich von Lampe (1920–1943) . . 146

Sergey Fokin
Life as a Novel. Boris Sokolov (1889–1979) . . 153

Victor Chebanov
Family Biography: The Path from Myth and Half-Truth to Truth. 171

Content:

Petr Bazanov
Residents of the village of Terijoki: repressions of 1939-1941. . 3

Igor Baskakov, Natalya Kruk
OKB-5. . 10

Oleg Bozhkov, Svetlana Ignatova
About the “roots” and depth of family memory. . 22

Georgy Efremov
Valerian Dombrowski: Wave from under the stone. . 35

Olga Zaslavskaya
From Fiume to the "Red River": in the footsteps of one myth. . 45

Alexander Ivanov
Philanthropy at the risk of life: the activities of Yakov Tsegelnitsky as the chief commissioner of the World Union of ORT in the USSR, 1920s – 1930s. 60

Marco Clementi
The Carabinieri Foundation in Rhodes and its Importance in the History of the Italian Holocaust . . 75

Janusz Kobryn
Biography of one house and the fate of its owners. . 81

Karine Maranjyan
The story of Mikhail Khvan (1904–1978), or Why there is still no dictionary of cursive writing in Russian Japanese studies . . 87

Karina Hovsepyan
Reflections on the fate of an athlete in the USSR and an analysis of an interview with a Soviet football player. . 94

Sergey Fokin
"Russia bears little resemblance to the one I knew." The Life and Death of Dr. Alexander Filipchenko . . 103

Nina Khailova
Centrist liberals in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century: the experience of collective biography in autobiographical narratives . . 124

Nina Tsvetaeva
Memory of socially significant events of the Soviet past in autobiographical narratives . . 131

Victor Chebanov
Clergymen and officials of spiritual departments from my family circle... 139

Alexander Chuvyurov
History of Russia in the 20th century based on the biographies of my relatives. . 145

Content:

Catriona Bass
Agvan Dorzhiev: Reconstruction of a Biography in an International Context . . 3

Valentina Belkovskaya, Mikhail Manturov
Drawings by N. E. Lanceray as ego-documents . . 17

Murat Valiev
Inventor Nikolai-Karl Albertovich Benois (1881–1938) . . 24

Irina Gordeeva
Pacifist Saboteur: The History of Russian Pacifism in the Late Soviet Era in the Biography of Yuri Popov (1954–1999) . . 33

Dmitry Zubarev
French Leniniana by Boris Pasternak . . 42

Natalia Kolesnik
Political biography of the leader and collective memory: features of reproduction . . 53

Ekaterina Kotova
The Ballad of "Zakhar": a dominant feature in the historical and cultural space of the Soviet city . . 60

Irina Kraineva
The personal archive of a scientist is a manifestation of his historical identity in the field of science. . 66

Natalia Kruk
OKTB-12: about those who designed and built the “Big House” . . 78

Maria Mikhailova, Chiara Rampazzo
Private letters of G. I. Chulkov as a source of biographical information . . 85

Irina Sleptsova
Peasant diaries as a source for reconstructing the “collective biography” of rural society . . 93

Elena Strukova
"The Great Terror" in the Fates of the Employees of the Main Party Library . . 103

Sergey Fokin
The Wagners. The Story of Three Generations . . 108

Victor Chebanov
Viktor Ivanovich Yatskevich – statesman of the Russian Empire . . 124

Alexander Chuvyurov
“We have a joke in our rock club: Stirlitz is walking down the corridor of the Reich Chancellery, and Müller is coming towards him…” (Little-known episodes from Mike Naumenko’s concert in Syktyvkar in April 1988) . . 132

Tatyana Shmankevich
From the interpretation of individual biography to the reconstruction of political mystification. The first results of biographical research . . 146

Content:

Dmitry Ivanov
Early Soviet obituaries as a source of revolutionary biography: the example of I. P. Zhuk and V. O. Lichtenshtadt (Mazin) . . 3

Nailya Bekzhanova, Natalya Kruk
Employees of the Library of the Academy of Sciences: repressions of the 1920s–1980s (from the history of the department of scientific systematization of literature) . . 15

Alexey Shanyavsky
Fedor Fedorovich Linde: experience of political biography. . 25

Vladlena Bespalova-Bruskina, Victor Gurevich
Alexander Bruskin – the executed People's Commissar. 34

Maria Buko
“I Survived” – the Memory and Experience of Polish People Who Survived the War. . 52

Oleg Bozhkov, Svetlana Ignatova
On the relationship between human biographies and housing. . 61

Alexey Ivanov
D.M. Pozdneev – organizer of the Jewish section in the State Museum of Ethnography (based on materials from St. Petersburg archives) . . 73

Murat Valiev
Russian writer, Slavist and literary historian Vasily Nikolaevich Korablev (1873–1936). . 82

Tatyana Shmankevich
The Phenomenon of the “Pentecostal Revolutionaries”: On the History of One Trial . . 96

Tatyana Kosinova
Tolstoy's Phalanstery of the Czapski-Marylskis in Petrograd 1918. . 106

Olga Novikovskaya
The connection of times in the context of family history: unexpected intersections and resonances of the past and present . . 116

Sergey Fokin
Shunichi Ono: "What Will Be Left After Me?" . . 124

Elena Rozhdestvenskaya
A letter from the front as an ego-document and a testimony of time. . 135

Roma Zayanchkauskene
Blessed Archbishop Teofilius Matulionis (1873–1962) – an example of fidelity to the priestly vocation . . 148

Nadezhda Slepkova
In memory of Irina Nikolaevna Neudachina. . 154

In memory of Tatyana Borisovna Pritykina. . 163

Content:

Irina Levinskaya
Elias Bickerman: An Unwanted Biography . . 3

Nikita Eliseev
Nikolai Baskakov (1896–1937). . 12

Sergey Prudovsky
Archival criminal case of the "Japanese spy" . . 25

Andrea Gullotta
Pseudonyms of Solovetsky writers: questions of historical and creative biography . . 37

Natalia Kruk
Library of the Academy of Sciences and State Security. Strokes to the History of the BAN . . 46

Sergey Fokin
Yuri Alexandrovich Filipchenko (1882–1930) and his circle . . 53

Tatyana Shmankevich
"Just God forbid anyone such happiness." To prevent tragedies from happening again, we need to remember them. . 63

Marina Muravyova
Fragments of Fate: Baron Georgy Alekseevich von der Osten-Sacken (1888–1937) . . 74

Anna Bikont
How I wrote a biography of the Polish national heroine Irena Sendler . . 84

Tatyana Kosinova
The Polish VSKhSON group in narratives and documents of the secret services . . 92

Alexander Ivanov
Principles of Formation of the “Instructional Space” at the Leningrad Exhibition “Jews in Tsarist Russia and in the USSR” (1939–1941) . . 109

Alexey Vovk
USSR – France – USSR. Biography of Nikolai Borisov. . 121

Murat Valiev, Nikolay Rodin
Other Benois. Officers Nikolai Leontievich and Alexander Leontievich Benois . . 129

Alexey Emelin, Valentin Naumov
The Secret of an Ancient Book: A Biography Encrypted in the Margins . . 135

Elena Yushkova
Alexander Rumnev: Strokes to the Portrait of the Biographer of Russian Pantomime . . 148

Olga Khmelnitskaya
Front-line letters and diaries as an archival source of biographical information (using the State Archives of the Tomsk Region as an example) . . 157

Nina Tsvetaeva
Resources of biographical memory: family roots, ethnic identity and other values and meanings. . . 162

Olga Novikovskaya
The connection of times in the context of family history: unexpected intersections and resonances of the past and present . . 169

Content:

Alexey Babiy
Memory books: from one-dimensional lists to volumetric representation . . 3

Murat Valiev, Andrey Mezhericher
Leonid Petrovich Mezhericher – life at the turning point of the eras . . 11

Alexey Vovk
Twice an emigrant Alexander Paleolog . . 20

Anna Gavrilova
The defeat of the "New World" in the diaries and memoirs of A.S. Berzer . . 30

Natalia Gramatchikova
"The First Director": the image of A.P. Bannikov in the cultural memory of Uralmash residents . . 39

Ekaterina Degaltseva
The heroic narrative of the Civil War in Russia (based on the biographies of General A.N. Pepeliaev and the commander of the Red Army I.Ya. Strod) . . 47

Alexander Ivanov
“On the Ethnographic Front”: The Activities of the Jewish Section of the Leningrad State Museum of Ethnography in 1937–1939. 56

Boris Kolonitsky
Evgeny Vensky – author of the Petrograd “Malenkaya Gazeta” (1914–1917) . . 66

Vladimir Kostyushev
The archival world of sociologist A.N. Alekseev: following the author’s “Wishes/instructions”... 86

Natalia Kruk
Lydia Andreevna Kruk – the wife of an executed enemy of the people. . 95

Irina Levinskaya
House on the sand . . 106

Oleg Lyubeznikov
Architects – graduates of the Academy of Arts in 1917 in the post-revolutionary era . . 114

Marina Salman
Alexandra Martynova – student of Professor S. A. Vengerov (according to archival sources) . . 122

Olga Tikhovskaya
Familiar and friendly poetic messages of Gulag prisoners as biographical sources: specificity, structure, information potential . . 133

Sergey Fokin
"The ultimate goal of any knowledge is man." Mikhail Nikolaevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1873–1951) – life for people and science . . 143

Tatyana Shmankevich
Towards an understanding of the St. Petersburg phenomenon (reconstruction of one life story) . . 159

Content:

Murat Valiev
David and Erwin Grimm were the last two rectors of the Imperial St. Petersburg University. . 3

Vladimir Vedernikov
The light of another century is terrible (K.K. Arsenyev: journalism of the post-October period, 1917–1919) . . 12

Alexey Vovk
Scientist, spy, partisan? Strokes to the biography of Mikhail Shrange (1907–1968) . . 23

Andrey Gross
The arrest and imprisonment of Alexander Yesenin-Volpin in 1949–1950... 35

Irina Kraineva
Rzhanovs near Leningrad: Surviving while defending the city . . 43

Yuri Maltsev
An attempt to reconstruct the biography of a five-time surviving staff captain... 55

Mikhail Ordovsky
Zigzags of fate . . 63

Dmitry Panto
Collection of the Oral History Archive of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk. History of creation: methodology and practice . . 69

Sergey Solovyov
Autobiography of Alexander Voronsky: an apology for aesthetic and political principles . . 74

Olga Tikhovskaya
On the structure of a biographical fact: from reflections on the materials of the investigative case of the involuntary repatriate V. O. Nedzelsky. . 85

Sergey Fokin
Three Comrades – Three Fates. Graduates of the Imperial St. Petersburg University of 1910 outside Russia . . 95

Tatyana Shmankevich
Another Memory. Women's Memories of the Perestroika Period . . 106

Content:

Teresa Bender-Sebelkampf
Ostarbeiters and Ostarbeiters from Ukraine in Vorarlberg: Between Man and Tool . . 3

Airat Bik-Bulatov
P. L. Dravert – Kazan journalist (unknown pages of the biography of the great scientist) . . 14

Irina Galkova
"Testimony of the Soviet Press" of the Fedorov Christians: Biography, Folk Life or Holy Scripture . . 22

Natalia Goncharenko
Unknown archive of biologist Boris Sukachev. Correspondence and social circle . . 34

Andrey Zhyvyuk
NKVD Directorate for Leningrad Region during the Great Terror: Warehouse Manager Yurchuk and Courier Chekmanov . . 42

Alena Zueva
Search for the Unknown. The Story of a Labor Army Worker . . 51

Janusz Kobryn
Biographical essays against the backdrop of an exhibition of photographs from the family archive. . 58

Irina Kraineva, Killu Sanborn, Meric Meriste
Enn Tõugu: The Story of an Estonian Programmer . . 67

Alexandra Krylenkova
Comparative analysis of the last words of defendants in political trials from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 21st century . . 79

Olga Savelova
Women in Science: Dynasty, Family, Persona . . 86

Elizaveta Savolainen
Biographical method in ethnosociological research of the identity of Ingrian Finns . . 95

Marina Sorokina
Pyotr Bogatyrev and the Good Soldier Schweik: Episodes from a Non-Literary Biography . . 111

Olga Tikhovskaya
The specifics of periodization in biographical research (notes in the margins of the biography of Yu. A. Kvyatkovskaya) . . 120

Ivan Tolstoy
Forgotten and altered. The fate of Grigory Lozinsky according to the papers of the family archive . . 130

Sergey Fokin
Once upon a time. 50 years of history of the scientist's family in Russia . . 141

Yuri Shchur
Yakov Troyan: the path from the leader of the anti-Soviet underground to a KGB agent. 152

Content:

Alexey Babiy
Echelon lists as a historical source . . 3

Tamara Volkova
An attempt to reconstruct the biography of a German special settler, labor army soldier, miner and medal-bearer Vasily Yantzen. . . 7

Alexander Daniel, Lev Krylenkov
Two Brothers: The Story of One Jewish Family, or What Can Be Caught at the Bottom of a Test Tube . . 13

Alexander Ivanov
Jews, Cossacks, Koreans and others: on the problem of interethnic relations in the Birobidzhan region of the USSR Far East (late 1920s – 1930s) . . 24

Marco Clementi
Soldiers' Wives. Short Biographies of Ukrainian Women During the Italian Army's Invasion of the Soviet Union. . 36

Irina Kraineva, Valery Shilov
Scientists in "boxes": biographies in Soviet research institutes . . 43

Olga Lebedeva
Deathbed confession or procedural document: autobiographies of Fumiko Kaneko and Eugenia Yaroslavskaya-Marcon. 54

Yaroslav Leontiev
Twice a “Solovki resident”, socialist revolutionary A.V. Yakovlev (Poltava case of the person shot in Sandarmokh) . . 61

Konstantin Morozov
How and why was the myth of Fanny Kaplan as a holy fool/hysteric asserted and why is it false? . . 72

Alla Morozova
Ego-documents as a source for the biography of a political prisoner: strengths and weaknesses . . 84

Sergey Ovsyannikov
Epifanov Ivan Ivanovich (1889 – not earlier than 1942) – worker, revolutionary anarchist, political prisoner. . 91

Boris Ravdin
Around the rumors about the death of the Archbishop of Riga and all Latvia John (Pommer): 1934 and other years . . 97

Marina Salman
“…don’t look for him, he doesn’t exist, and you will never know anything about him.” The life and death of Vsevolod Leman (according to archival sources) . . 114

Marina Sorokina
"The Case of Valery Stashevsky" (1882–1945) and the Fate of the Creator of "Russian Belgrade" . . 121

Olga Tikhovskaya
Omissions in the memoir text and the problem of their actualization when creating the biography of the memoirist (based on the memoirs of Russian refugees of the 1920s) . . 128

Sergey Fokin
“Memories drive time back.” Valentin Aleksandrovich Dogel (1882–1955) and his family . . 138

Tatyana Shmankevich
Olga Lipovskaya as part of the St. Petersburg myth. A paradoxical portrait against the backdrop of change. 147

Content:

Murat Valiev
Academician of architecture Alexander Alexandrovich Bruni (1860–1911) . .3

Andrea Gullotta
Italian Victims of Sandormokh: Biographies and Problems of Source Studies . . 14

Dmitry Ivanov
Can the oppressed have a biography? Anarchist Pavel Nikolaevich Kolobushkin and sources about his life. . 21

Ekaterina Kamenskaya
The Polish Crisis of 1980-1981 in Diaries . .30

Marco Clementi
Biography of Giovanni Palatucci as an example of atonement for collective guilt . . 39

Boris Kondakov
Architect Ksenia Aleksandrovna Evnevich (Prokopyeva). New facts about the architectural department of Dmitlag. .48

Vladimir Kostyushev
On the scientific and political biography of Galina Vasilievna Starovoitova: ethnosociology and ethnopolitics, 1970–1990s. 54

Irina Kraineva
Lake, People and the State: the Fate of Baikal. . 61

Konstantin Morozov
Materials of the Gots Family Foundation in the library of La contemporaine (Nanterre) as a source for writing the biography of the brothers Mikhail and Abram Gots . . 71

Alla Morozova
“The Missing Link”: On Archival Finds and the Role of Individual Documents in Restoring Biography . . 79

Olga Nefedova
Memories of Zhenya Sulakshina: 1918–1946. The story of a girl from a family of repressed persons. . 87

Sergey Ovsyannikov
Sofia Avrutskaya: a life-long "odyssey". 94

Irina Takala
"The Forsten Case": On the Question of Verifying Data in the Books of Remembrance of the Repressed . . 100

Julia De Florio
Yakov Petrovich Meksin: the life of the main popularizer of children's books . . 110

Marina Shandarova
Parcel to the Gulag: What Will a Prisoner Be Happy About? (Camp Letters of Lawyer Alexander Belsky) . . 117

Nona Shahnazaryan
On the issue of the social nature of anti-surnames: discriminatory surnames or rural nicknames? . . 126

Valery Shilov
A Drop of Water and the Sea: The Story of One Family. . 139

Tatyana Shmankevich
An interesting story of one shuttle trader. . 147

Content

Tatyana Bonch-Osmolovskaya
Vasily Volkov is an unknown figure in the geophysical branch of the “Pulkovo case” . . 3

Murat Valiev
Ivan Georgievich Zubkov - unknown pages of family history . . 11

Alexey Vovk
Shaposhnikov-Tapis in Russia and France . . 18

Andrey Ganin
"His explanations... do not deserve respect." Cavalry General Sergei Mikhailovich Scheidemann in the Moscow Cheka. . .26

Ekaterina Kamenskaya
Letters to Radio Liberty in 1965–1975 . .36

Marco Clementi
Umberto Zanotti Bianco: a vision of Ukraine . .43

Natalia Kolyagina
The Choice between the Feminine and the Universalist Subject in Larisa Bogoraz's Autobiography. 49

Martin Malek
General Alfred Jansa and the Anschluss of Austria by the Third Reich in 1938 . .57

Sergey Ovsyannikov
Left Socialist Revolutionary, anarchist, candidate of historical sciences: the socio-political activities of Alexei Alexeevich Olonetsky (Sadikov) . . 62

Boris Ravdin
Note to the military biography of Vladimir Fedorovich Markov – philologist and poet. . 69

Irina Takala
The ABCs of Revolution: The Life and Fate of the “Red Finn” Viktor Salo. . 82

Sergey Fokin
The story of one Russian-German family: Italy, Russia, Belarus. . 93

Josephine von Zitzewitz
"Conversation" (Leningrad-Paris, 1983-1993): biography of the magazine. . 107

Valery Shilov
Lev Nikolaevich Chernyak: officer, inventor. . 115