Женский взгляд: мемуары Н.Б. Долгорукой

The present paper concerns Natal'ia Borisovna Dolgorukaia's Own Notes – the first female autobiography in the history of Russian literature. Contrary to a received notion of scholarship, the generic character of these Notes is not determined by the hagiographic tradition, but by the interaction of two secular genres – the memoir on one hand, and the novel on the other. With their generically complex structure, Dolgorukaia's Notes give a fascinating insight into how a female aristocrat viewed her own life in early eighteenth-century Russia.