A. V. SUKHOVO-KOBYLIN AND THE SILVER AGE. DIALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPT SOURCES IN YU. A. KRASOVSKY’S COLLECTION

The article deals with the manuscripts collected by the critic, archivist, editor Yuri Alexandrovich Krasovsky (1909-1987). An unpublished draft excerpt from the Record of Self-Consciousness, a philosophical essay by the playwright A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylin, was discovered amid the documents of the Silver Age — the core of the collection. The draft was penned on the reverse side of the extracts from a comical farce The Death of Tarelkin. Same as the other manuscripts from the collection, these drafts by Sukhovo-Kobylin contain notes, auto-marginalia. When decoded, they create a textual collision and reveal additional semantic layers, allowing to trace the influence of genres, conventions, accepted selection criteria and systematization of documents on the process of shaping the structure of egodocuments and to show that the entire archival infrastructure, the apparatus of academic reference, archival practices, compilation of collections can be interpreted as a coherent egodocument, autobiography, personal and cultural memory.

archive, collection, museum, manuscript, symbolism, Krasovsky, Sukhovo-Kobylin, memory.