The everyday life of linguistic Moscow in the early 1920s and theart of speech portrait in the memoirs by Aleksandr Reformatskij
An attempt to characterize how the essay by A. Reformatskij may help us to understand the growth of the first post-revolutionary generation of linguists in Moscow. The author also tries to show the meaning of this essay as a source for documentation of language behaviour - both of Orlov and Reformatskij.