Perceptions transformation about female and the traditions formation of memoir literature XVIII - early XIX centuries

The article involves the formation and development of new approaches to memoir literature, analyzes the changes in ideas about the women's world in the late 18th - early 19th centuries, the traditions of memoir literature and the specifics of text formation on the example of the memoirs of Dolgoruky, Labzina, Princess Dashkova, Catherine the Great. Ways of personal self-realization are described, discursive features of texts are considered.