ИСТИНА

The description of the last days spent by the Uvarovs in the fatherland allows to consider routine life of the family during the period when their usual way of life was destroying. Referring to the personal sources and "ego-sources" gives the possibility to open new pages, see the particular facets of the analyzed phenomenon, allows to find out not only what was happening, but also what the author felt. The peculiarity of P.S. Uvarova’s memories is that they concentrate not on everyday bits and pieces but on the reflections with the idea to preserve and to pass on the life principles and the values inexorably destroyed by the Civil War to ancestors.