Yuri Lotman in my life: memories. Diaries

Personality of an outstanding philologist, literary critic, culturologist Yu.M. Lotman (1922-1993), one of the founders of the famous Tartu school, his life and creativity today are of particular interest of researchers. That is why M.V. Sonkin decided to publish not only memories of his mother F.S. Sadkin, but also her diaries and correspondence with a lotman, representing a lively agitated conversation of two loving people. Familiar from the student years, Yu.M.lotman and F.S. Sonkin has come close to two decades later and since then their relationship has played a huge role in everyone"s life. Unlike the letters of many famous Colleagues-Colleagues, their correspondence almost does not affect scientific problems, it is facing the life of a private, household, spiritual, covering both the inner world of Yuri Mikhailovich and the character of a woman he loved for many years. As Lotman himself said, the story passes through the man"s house through his private life. In this sense, the correspondence of Lotman and Sonkin will enter Russian culture not only as a bright evidence of feeling, rare by heat and height, but also as evidence of the era