OSOBNO I JAVNO U RANOJ RUSKOJ ŽENSKOJ AUTOBIOGRAFIJI: SLUČAJ NATAL'JE DOLGORUKOVE
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC IN EARLY RUSSIAN WOMEN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY: THE CASE OF NATALIA DOLGORUKOVA

Summary/Abstract: Natalia Dolgorukova is the author of the first published Russian women's autobiography, controversial for text's impact and its canonization as well as the canonization of its author's posthumous public image, although conceived as a document for family use. Due to its author's context, it was written under various conventional constraints but later completely unexpectedly reanimated due to the context of her grandchildren's generation. This paper will make an attempt to illuminate these constraints, their causes and consequences, point to text manipulations, its tendentious usages and implications of such acts, and show how these and other prominent text features influenced the correlation between private and public. These determinants will be examined primarily within the text itself and within its immediate context, but equal attention will be paid to their correlation in text's further destiny, reaching far beyond its supposed initial condition.

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