RUSSIA OF THE LATE XIX-TH - EARLY XX-TH CENTURIES IN THE M. A. OSORGIN'S "VREMENA" ("THE TIMES") RECOLLECTIONS
The article analyzes the memoirs narrative "Vremena" ("The Times”] by the writer and publicist M.A. Osorgin, dedicated to Russian life at the turn of the XIX-XX-th centuries. Special attention is paid to the memoirist's attitude to the revolutionary events of 1917. It is emphasized that M. Osorgin managed to create a portrait of the age with all its shocks and contradictions.