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Abstract:

The article is based on the two-volume diary kept by its author Vera P. Frolova in 1942–1945 in Germany where she was forcefully sent by the Germans from the occupied town of Strel’na, the end-to-end subject of the analysis being the philosophical, anthropological, and cultural problem of preserving one’s personality and forming as well as functioning of various types of identity (ethnocultural, social, gender, etc.) under the circumstances of lack of freedom (violence) and cultural multiverse. Based on the systematicstructural analysis, a detailed typology of unfreedom and cultural multiverse levels are presented, the said levels defining the specificity and the vector of forming Frolova’s identity; besides, the existential situations in which she found herself, which she reconstructed in the text, and which influenced her identity formation are analyzed. Finally, the main functions of the diary (those of a companion, a confident, the author’s conscience, etc.) are also analyzed with special attention paid to the confessional one.

Keywords: diary, entry, personality, identity, gender identity, slavery, violence, choice, culture, trauma, loss, fear, experience.