Personal Archival Collections a Cultural Memory Artefacts: E.L. Miller’s Collection
The article presents a detailed description of personal Russian émigré collections - the one compiled by E.L.Miller’s, the sister of the brothers Losinsky, the two well known Russian literary scholars. The collection is regarded as a typical case of a ‘forgotten’ cultural artefact, i.e., a collection which has attracted very little scholars’ attention and as the result has not been the object of thorough study notwithstanding its obvious significance for the history of Russian pre-revolutionary and émigré culture. The part preceding the actual description offers a theoretical and historical background allowing to fit the analysis of the collection documents into the general field of cultural memory and archival studies, treating the latter as ‘memorial places’ and repositories of culturally significant artefacts.