On the possible end of A.A. Saksaganskaya's memoirs about the civil war

Anna Abramovna Saksaganskaya wrote two memoirs about her stay in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War: “On the home front” and “Makhno. Under the black flag” (both were written in the late 1920s - early 1930s, published in 2018). The Russian Civil War appears unfinished there. Its ending for Saksaganskaya is related with her return to Petrograd. She describes how she managed to get permission to this return in her letter to V.D. Bonch-Bruevich. So, we believe that this letter can be considered as a logical end of the memoir dilogy. Thus, the writer’s memories of life in the Russian Civil War acquire integrity and literary completeness. This letter is published in the article for the first time and its analysis is given. The letter is interesting from several points of view: 1) biographical, 2) historical (it clarifies how the departure from Ekaterinoslav was carried out after the Russian Civil war), 3) compositional (as the end of the memoir dilogy), 4) genre (it is the genre of letter in the letter). Letter of BonchBruevich rewritten by Saksaganskaya becomes the text-forming beginning of her letter, and it is its main character. Subsequently the writer reflected the same story in other unfinished memoirs, but there she did not copy the text of Bonch-Bruevich, it ceased to be the subject of the narrative, becoming one of its elements. The article discusses the attitude of the writer to documents and letters; it reveals the focus on literature in the world of Saksaganskaya’s ego-text.