Diaries of the Savodnik sisters. Ending.

Abstract. The diaries published here belong to teenagers and later-on young women Olya and Natasha Savodnik, daughters of Vladimir Fedorovich Savodnik, a professor of Philology from Moscow. He was a college fellow of Valery Bryusov and also wrote poetry; however, he became famous thanks to his numerous textbooks and anthologies in the Russian literature. The surviving parts of the diaries were written in July 1914 – December 1920 (the Olya’s Diary) and November 1915 – October 1917 (the Natasha’s Diary). Some pages were cut out later, probably by the authors. The diaries give an idea about raising children in a family of Moscow intelligentsia in the beginning of the XX cent., about everyday life of such families, their perception of the First World War, the 1917 Revolution, and the Civil War. A reader can follow the coming-of-age process of Savodnik sisters and thus acquire better understanding of psychology of personal development.

Keywords: Olga and Natalia Savodnik, the everyday life of Russian intelligentsia, raising teenagers, Chernyavskaya gymnasium, First World War, 1917 Revolution.