SPECIFICITY OF THE USE OF MEMOIR HERITAGE IN THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ART HISTORIANS AND CULTURAL SPECIALISTS

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to study and analyze the specifics of the use of the memoir heritage of the artists through the example of three publications of different years of the Ukrainian Soviet theater and cinema actor, film director and cinema teacher E.S. Matveyev. Methodology. Research methodology consists of the use of the methods of scientific reconstruction, objectivity and historicism. These methodological approaches allowed us to study the methodology of using the memoir heritage of artists by modern Ukrainian scientists. The scientific novelty of the work is predefined by the necessity to study little known pages of history of Ukrainian cinema and its figures that for one reason or another remained out of eyeshot of home art critics. Conclusions. Summing up the above, it can be noted that the scientific tasks set at the beginning of the article have been fulfilled: the method of using the memoir inheritance of artists by modern Ukrainian scholars has been researched; the common features and differences in three publications by E.S. Matveyev – “Our cinema evening meetings: Evgen Matveyev”, “Do not spare the flames of heart” and “Fate in Russian” have been analyzed; the importance of checking the facts based on the dates and circumstances of Evgen Matveyev's entrance to the School of Movie Actors at the Kyiv Feature Film Studio has been shown. With the help of the important information found in the memoirs of E.S. Matveyev we paid attention to the importance of using the memorial legacy in scientificresearch.