2020 Issue №3

The purpose of the article is to consider the relationship between F. N. Glin­ka and M. A. Miloradovich, and the impact on Glinka’s fate and life. As a per­son, Fyodor Glinka was directly influenced by the events related to the anti-Napoleonic campaign of 1805—1806, the Patriotic war of 1812, and the for­eign campaigns of the Russian army of 1813—1815. An officer of the Ap­sheron infantry regiment, he began as an ensign and ended his military ca­reer as a Colonel, a writer and poet, a chronicler of three wars, editor of the first «Military magazine» and organizer of the military library, a Decembrist and philanthropist. This is not a complete «service record» of Glinka before the December uprising of 1825. M. A. Miloradovich played a visible role in this various acts and functions of F. N. Glinka.
The article clarifies the facts concerning the military service of F. N. Glin­ka and his personal relations with M. A. Miloradovich. This allowed us to cor­rect the biographical data of Glinka, which are based on the research of his so­cial and literary activities. The author of the article adheres to the point of view of the historian A. G. Tartakovsky, who believes that «Letters of a Rus­sian officer» are not simply memoirs. The author believes that «Letters» have a complex genre structure, where the documentary material is woven into the texture of artistic and journalistic essay, and the subjective narrative is adja­cent to the objective in the absence of a clear border between them. In addition, Glinka's autobiography, written at a fairly old age, is full of author's inaccu­racies and conjectures, which become apparent only in the context of compar­ing the specific facts set out in the autobiography and in the «Letters of a Rus­sian officer», with the involvement of archival documents.

The article analyzes the life of former Polish prisoner of the Nazi concen­tration camp Auschwitz Stanislaw Dubiel (1910—?), who between 1942 and 1944 worked as a gardener at the villa of the Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, and subsequently became one of the main prosecution witnesses at his trial. The trial took place in Warsaw in March 1947 and lasted 18 days. In addition to Dubiel, other Poles — former Auschwitz prisoners testified there, but Dubiel’s testimony was the most complete and contained many important details. Having gone through all the circles of the Auschwitz hell, Dubiel after his release returned to normal life and in 1947 opposed Höss. Dubiel’s testi­mony is not only an important legal source but also a historical source, that helps historians partly restore his biography. This article aims to analyze Du­biel’s testimony in the Höss’s trial, evaluate its authenticity, and determine what role it plays in the reconstruction of the daily life of Auschwitz inmates, commandant Höss and his family, as well as other SS-men who worked in Auschwitz.