Features of the Structure of V.S. Bayevsky’s Biographical Essays on Historians

Abstract

The article is devoted to V.S. Bayevsky, the Smolensk scientist and writer, and his analysis of biographical essays about historians from the cycle of video lectures for graduate students «The History of Science in Scientists’ Biog- raphies». The selected essays contain information about the life and work of out- standing historiographers of the XIX century, such as S.M. Solovyov and V.O. Klyuchevsky. Digitized lectures from Bayevsky’s personal archive represent a unique theoretical material according to the presented factual information based on a large source base. The study of the proposed essays made it possible to identify the features of their structure by determining the ways of constructing the concept of the scientists’ personality.