“The Hero in the Study ...”: The Personality of the Writer in S. V. Maksimov’s Essay “Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky” (1897)

Abstract

Aim . We reveal the personality features of A. N. Ostrovsky based on the memoirs of S. V. Maksimov, his contemporary and the ethnographer. Methodology . The portrait of A. N. Ostrovsky is considered as the subject of the study; both the principles of portraiture themselves and the accents placed by the writer-ethnographer who personally knew Ostrovsky and was close to him in his value orientations and moral sympathies, are revealed. The methodology of the work relies on the use of biographical, cultural-historical, and psychological methods that allow us