Life Writing, Novel and Anecdote as Models of Autonarrative in Russian Memoirs of the Second Half of the 18th Century

The article is written in line with the fundamental literary problematics - it studies possible ways of fictionalizing Russian memoirs of the second half of the 18th century. The paper aims to analyze memoir-autobiographical texts in terms of the realization of the key autonarrative models-prototypes in them. The scientific originality of the research lies in the fact that it studies memoir texts of the second half of the 18th century (N. B. Dolgoroukaya’s “Self-Made Notes”, “The Adventures of Warrant Officer Klimov”, M. V. Danilov’s “Notes”, etc.) not in terms of the formation and development of the memoir genre in the Russian literature, but from the point of view of the specificity of narrative and plot models of memoir prose of the second half of the 18th century, apparently aimed at the literary patterns. The results of the research have shown that the leading literary autonarrative models-prototypes in Russian memoir-autobiographical prose of the second half of the 18th century are life writing, anecdote and novel.