FACT VERSUS FICTION: FYODOR TYUTCHEV IN THE NOVEL BY A. GELASSIMOV «WIND-ROSE»

Issues of writing a famous historical person biography, as well as the problem of biographical data interpretation in a fictional text is actualized in the article. The designated problem defined the aim of the article and also a number of objectives related to reviewing the most significant aspects in present day biography studies, the relevance of creation and reconstruction (Y. M. Lotman) in biography writing, biography interpretation techniques and methods exemplified by the analysis of a personage in the novel by a contemporary scientist and writer A. V. Gelassimov (born in 1965). It is noted that the images of the novel lead characters – G. I. Nevelsky and E. Yelchaninova – are presented with undisguised sympathy and in accordance with their actual biographies, unlike that of F. Tyutchev. Seeking to understand the causes, yet with no loss of observation objectivity in the field of how and on what grounds, in A. V. Gelassimov’s concept, a personage can be created the author of the article addresses his Candidate’s dissertation/PhD dissertation. In this paper (despite its specific orientalist problematic) an auteur methodology reveals itself-gaining new meanings through proliferation of senses, their multiplication. In A. V. Gelassimov’s view, as a result, vice acquires an intriguing shade of a new meaning, fact distortion becoming an independent phenomenon and acquiring a beneficial function of influencing contemporaries’ minds. Further on, the author of the article elicits all the episodes connected with the character called F. I. Tyutchev, analyzes them pointing out all the cases of meanings multiplication and their novel verification aimed at the distortion of the poet actual life events. A. V. Gelassimov’s unflattering speeches about F. Tyutchev are exemplified, which is a direct evidence that the strategy chosen by the author to study ways of constructing the poet’s biography in the given literary text is correct and valid.