The History of Everyday Life in Details: the Problems of Commenting on Texts of Russian Literature
The article deals with the problems of understanding and commenting on the works of N. Gogol, L. Tolstoy and other classics of Russian fiction, as well as the re-edition of prerevolutionary essays,journalism texts, and memoirs. In this article, the approaches to commenting are associated with the study of the history of Russian everyday life. The examples demonstrate the importance of small historical and everyday details used by the authors in the creation of their characters. This study puts a question about the commenting technique: which fragments of a text need commenting, since it allows penetrating the author's intent and understanding the text, and which incomprehensible details can be left without attention.