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Maria S. Fedoseeva (Akimova)
Maria S. Fedoseeva (Akimova) — PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25a, 121069 Moscow, Russia; Senior Researcher, Museum of Zelenograd, Gogol str., 11B, 124575 Zelenograd, Moscow, Russia.
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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6051-3949
This study was carried out at IWL RAS with a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 22-18-00051), https://rscf.ru/project/22-18-00051/
Abstract:
Museum memoiristics is an interesting but little-explored layer of texts. Using the example of the Pushkin Nature Reserve, Boldino, Polenovo, Karabikha, Yasnaya Polyana, Muranovo, Dunino, the article considered the phenomenon of non-fiction literature associated with the museum space of the estate: typical plots, features of poetics, etc. The study of museum memoiristics of the 20th century allows us to say that, with a number of exceptions due to new historical realities, the estate-museum as one of the viable modifications of the “estate topos” in the 20th century inherits its constitutive features. The classical “estate” and “museum-estate” toposes are determined by such properties as stability, continuity, the desire to preserve material and intangible heritage, a relatively permanent composition of inhabitants united in a socio-cultural community by a special system of values and certain behavioral models (“estate habitus”), etc. In addition, in museum memoiristics, which, as a rule, perceives the museified estate space in an idyllic/elegiac way, there is also a place for negative reception, which also inherits the structure of the classical “estate topos”.