Problem of life-creation in the autobiography by V.S. Petcherin "Memoirs of behind the tomb" ("Zamogil’nye zapiski") and G. Sand’s "Spiridion"
The article analyses autobiographic essay by V.S. Petcherin “Memoires of behind the tomb” (“Zamogil’nye zapiski”) as a reflection active “life-creation” realized by the author as well as his application of certain literary schemes. The facts selected by the author, the way they are being interpreted and careful construction of the author’s literary publicistic image are completely detemined by his purposes, namely justification or “apologia” of his way of life and actions before readers. Creating the image of a hero in the memoirs was held within the literary tradition of romanticism which explains its following literary samples, the novel “Spiridion” by G. Sand in the first place.