"Omsk diary, 1917-1920" and its author, Tatyana Nikolaevna Mashinskaya

in 2023, Omsk State Pedagogical University published a book of memoirs by two native Siberians – Russian A. M. Randrup and German A. M. Rosenplanter – representing the feminine cultural world of "bourgeois" Omsk: "Flowers of the Past Not Forgotten...." The pre-war "Omsk Diary" by another prominent representative of this world, merchant's daughter T.N. Mashinskaya, published by the Prague magazine "Slovo", significantly enriches our understanding of the cultural space in which the author of the "diary" lived. The publisher did not include it in the book for copyright reasons. The only article to date by Omsk local historian V.I. Selyuk contains only the most general description of this source. The purpose of this work is to examine it, primarily from a substantive perspective, identifying the main themes, the specifics of the author's descriptions and assessments, and the characterization of the author herself. Textual analysis allowed us to reconstruct images of childhood, the parents' family, and the relationships within it, revealing some essential features of pastimes, primarily leisure, on the border between everyday life and celebration. The author's depictions of the memoirs are examined in the article as exemplary of a "girlish," "feminine" perspective. At the same time, an image of Tatyana Nikolaevna herself, her coming-of-age, and the formation of her personality are constructed—the story of a person in "times you can't choose." The presented materials can be used in developing specialized courses on the history of gender and the history of Siberian cities in the first quarter of the 20th century.

memories, pre-revolutionary Omsk, merchant family, bourgeois youth pastime, everyday life and holidays, personal development, female perspective