Рукопись записок декабриста С. П. Трубецкого из коллекции И. А. Шляпкина: установление авторства, датировка, соотношение с другими редакциями

Abstract

The memoirs of S. P. Trubetskoy, discovered in the collection of professor I. A. Shlyapkin, are a complete memoir essay devoted to the events of the reign of Alexander I and the interregnum of 1825 and only briefly touching on the period of investigation, trial and exile, that followed the Decembrist uprising. Information about the authorship was lost and was no longer available to the founder of the collection I. A. Shlyapkin. The attribution required special research procedures and handwriting expertise. The manuscript differs significantly from the previously known editions of S. P. Trubetskoy’s memoirs in its structure and, to a large extent, in content. The textual analysis, as well as the study of the chronological indications available in the document, lead to the conclusion about the early origin of the memoir essay, at the same time the manuscript contains signs that it was based on the original version of the memoirs. A comparison of the text of the discovered manuscript and the previously known memoirs of S. P. Trubetskoy, which are a complex of different-time and unfinished manuscripts, shows the complexity of creating the text of the memoirs of this Decembrist.