Artistic dimension in "Some memories" (The memoirs) of Gafer Seydamet
«Some memoirs» is one of the best examples among memoirs written in the Crimean Tatar literature in the first half of the XX century. This article analyzes the artistic features used by J. Seydamet in his work. The artistic features of J. Seydamet`s reminicenses «Some memoirs», was one of the best works of the memoir genre in the Crimean Tatar literature in the first half of the XX century, this question is discussed in the article. The memoirs cover the period between the Russian Revolution (1905) and the establishment the Soviet authority in the Crimea in 1920, which was one of the most tragic periods in the history of the Crimean Tatars. The various aspects of the artistic features of the works are analysed in the article. Such pecularities as poetic originality, style of representation, the language of the narrative, unusual representation of portraits of contemporaries, including well-known public and political persons of the Crimea, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Turkey, Germany such as M. Hrushevsky V. Vynnychenko, S. Petlyura, A. Kerensky, J. Pilsudsky, Talyat and Enver Pasha are shown at this point. The article opens the sense and value of «Some memoirs» as the most important source of information in the history of the Crimea of the first two decades of the XX century, and especially the events of 1917-1918, which have the marginal meaning in the national revival of the Crimean Tatar people. The memories combined the truth of the historical document and work of art of high artistic beauty