Romanenko A. Culture of reminiscences and reminiscences of culture: memoir legacy of V. Pukhal’sky

The thesis explores an early period of life and work of V. Pukhal’sky, from his birth to the moment when he was admitted to the St. Petersburg Conservatory, as described in an unpublished memoir «Recollections of my life». When studying the «Recollections» and the role they played in understanding the nature and the psychology of his mastership, we have used complementary pair categories, the «culture of reminiscences» and the «reminiscences of culture», which are actualization forms of cultural meanings and their translations. The «Recollections of my life» is both a source of reminiscences about the culture and a representant of the concept of the «culture of reminiscences». A goal of the research is to fully and comprehensively reconstruct the infant and juvenile periods of V. Pukhal’sky’s life, since these periods are not well studied in the context of his memoir legacy.