LITERARY PORTRAITS OF POLITICIANS IN MEMOIRS OF RUSSIAN WRITERS-EMIGRANTS
The object of the research in given article is the literary portraits of politicians created by Russian writers-emigrants (G. Adamovich, I. Bunin, Z. Gippius, B. Zaytsev, A. Kuprin, N. Teffi, V. Khodasevich) in memoirs prose of 1920-1950s. The author proves the importance of comprehension of key events of a modern epoch for memoirists - revolutions of 1917, Russian Civil war, to emigration through a prism of perception of historic figures and their influence on a course of domestic history. The figurative judgement of current historical events, their influence on destinies of people has received ample opportunities of an embodiment in memoirs of Russian writers.