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Sholokhov Museum-Reserve at the XI Sytin Readings

Sholokhov Museum-reserve took part in the XI All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference "Sytin Readings", which took place on October, 6, within the framework of the II International Forum of Historians, Philosophers and Publicists "Transformation of Historical Memory in the Space of Regions in the XX - Early XXI Century", dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin birth. The event was organized by the Museum-Reserve “The Motherland of Vladimir Lenin" and the department of the historical society in Ulyanovsk. 

This year the conference was held in the format of a video conference on the Zoom online platform. 

The Sytin Readings "History and Memory: Research and Practice of Formation of Society's Value Priorities" within the framework of the thematic block "Archival Sources, Letters, Diaries, Oral History, Cinematography as Tools for the Formation of Historical Memory" was attended by a researcher of the excursion department Nadezhda Rasskazova with a report "Letter to the Leader" as part of the epistolary heritage of Mikhail Sholokhov (on the example of letters to Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev)". She has considered such a genre variety of the epistolary of Mikhail Sholokhov as a “letter to the leader”. This is a letter containing an explanation of the author's ideological, political and creative positions, requests caused by various difficult situations, as well as requests for permission to travel abroad. The work analyzed the images of the addressee and addressers, the language and style, the content of letters from the point of view of their correspondence to the characteristic features of the "letter to the leader" genre, revealed the original aspects of the genre, unique features determined by the personal relationships between the addressees, as well as the originality of the writer's creative manner. 

The conference was attended by scientists, sociologists, historians, literary scholars, culturologists, museum, library and archival specialists, teachers of universities and schools from Ulyanovsk, Saransk, Penza, Chelyabinsk, Moscow and the Moscow region, Tomsk, Orel, Kazan, etc. 

The participants discussed a wide range of issues related to theoretical, methodological, conceptual, socio-cultural, historical, cultural and pedagogical aspects of the study of historical memory, the formation and development prospects of the historical policy of various regions of Russia.

Nadezhda Rasskazova