"The book of destiny" in the mirror of documentary novel (review on book N. V. Mamulashvili "My Chechen war". 94 days in the captivity")

In the review is given a characteristic of the autobiographical book of the famous political analyst Nikolai Mamulashvili. The documentary novel is considered at the intersection of source studies and literary science. Synthesis of methodological approaches which adopted in these fields of scientific knowledge makes it possible to comprehend the novel and as a alive testimony of history, and as a complicated analytical material which combining the objective and subjective approaches, documentary and journalistic beginnings in the resolving of complicated historical contradictions that given through the prism of human destiny.