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SHAGI/STEPS 7(1)

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O. M. Freidenberg’s personal archive as intention: Motives and goal-setting

N. Iu. Kostenko
Russian State University for the Humanities (Russia, Moscow)

DOI: 10.22394/2412-9410-2021-7-1-168-182

Keywords: O. M. Freidenberg, personal archive, B. L. Pasternak, motivation, principles for the selection of archival documents, memoirs, autobiography, memory, the Siege of Leningrad

Abstract: Among all the varieties of personal archives, those that were formed on purpose by their creators constitute a separate group. They are united by typological similarity, which is primarily associated with the personality traits of their compilers; identifying these traits helps us gain insights into the plan, motives and goals they were guided by while gathering the archive. Understanding the archive from the position of postmodernism as shaping the past, present and future of society can be applied not only to state archives, but also to private collections as products of deliberate action. With the state or society creating examples of what is important and necessary to preserve, future “archivists” use this information as a matrix for forming their own archives. This article examines the archive of O. M. Freidenberg — an outstanding Russian classicist, philologist, Leningrad State University professor, author of memoirs, including her notes on the Siege of Leningrad, the first woman in the USSR to become a Doctor of Philology, and Boris Pasternak’s cousin — precisely in these terms. Analysis of the archive materials and correspondence between Freidenberg and Boris Pasternak allows us to determine the principles that guided her in compiling the archive as a way to preserve her creative heritage in the face of categorical rejection of her scientific ideas and civic position both by the state and the scientific community.

To cite this article: Kostenko, N. Iu. (2021). O. M. Freidenberg’s personal archive as intention: Motives and goal-setting. Shagi/Steps, 7(1), 168–182. (In Russian). https://doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2021-7-1-168-182.