In the study of the House-Museum, there is a notepad which belonged to the writer Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak. His wife, Olga Guvale, gifted it to him.
The notepad was made in the 19th century, and only the leather cover has been preserved to the present time. It is decorated with three stripes and a floral ornament in embossing technique along the edges. In the center, there are large gilt letters “D.N.M-S.” — the writer’s initial letters.
The writer traveled extensively in the Urals, studied Ethnography, Economics and History, participated in geological and archaeological excavations, researched people’s everyday life and interacted with ordinary people. For such trips, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak always took with him a notepad cover, a few blocks of paper for notes and a pair of well-sharpened pencils. He took notes, recorded important phrases from conversations, so as not to miss a single important detail.
The entries in the notepad became the basis for many of Mamin-Sibiryak’s documentary and fiction stories, in which he described the Ural nature and life of the local population. Among other works based on his observations, he wrote essays “From the Urals to Moscow”, “In the Stones”, “At the Border of Asia”, “In Bad Souls” and others.
In addition, during family meetings and conversations, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak collected and recorded the information discussed by his relatives. The writer’s niece Natalia Udintseva recalled that he always listened with interest and wrote down in his notepads the stories of his older brother: “Nikolay Narkisovich Mamin always told Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin about his adventures. Dmitry always listened to him with interest, and wrote down most of his stories in his notepad.”
Mamin-Sibiryak also used family stories as a texture for his works.
The notepad was made in the 19th century, and only the leather cover has been preserved to the present time. It is decorated with three stripes and a floral ornament in embossing technique along the edges. In the center, there are large gilt letters “D.N.M-S.” — the writer’s initial letters.
The writer traveled extensively in the Urals, studied Ethnography, Economics and History, participated in geological and archaeological excavations, researched people’s everyday life and interacted with ordinary people. For such trips, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak always took with him a notepad cover, a few blocks of paper for notes and a pair of well-sharpened pencils. He took notes, recorded important phrases from conversations, so as not to miss a single important detail.
The entries in the notepad became the basis for many of Mamin-Sibiryak’s documentary and fiction stories, in which he described the Ural nature and life of the local population. Among other works based on his observations, he wrote essays “From the Urals to Moscow”, “In the Stones”, “At the Border of Asia”, “In Bad Souls” and others.
In addition, during family meetings and conversations, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak collected and recorded the information discussed by his relatives. The writer’s niece Natalia Udintseva recalled that he always listened with interest and wrote down in his notepads the stories of his older brother: “Nikolay Narkisovich Mamin always told Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin about his adventures. Dmitry always listened to him with interest, and wrote down most of his stories in his notepad.”
Mamin-Sibiryak also used family stories as a texture for his works.
