THE SOUTHERN URAL’S HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPE IN THE WORKS OF V.ZEFIROV AND V.UMATOV («ORENBURG PROVINCIAL GAZETTE» IN THE MIDDLE OF THE XIX CENTURY)

Abstract

Sosfenov’s work as an editor of the unofficial part of the «Orenburg Provincial Gazette» (1845-1853) was very fruitful: main thematic blocks were formed and a network of correspondents was established. The publications written by two of the authors of the «Orenburg Provincial Gazette» during rhis period became the material of this article. This authers are the talented writer V. Zefirov and the amateur historian V. Yumatov. The formation of the main concepts of the historical and cultural landscape on the Southern Urals / the Orenburg region is analyzed, the basic intonations of the description of localities and historical events are determined, and «points of reflection» are revealed. Conceptualization of the important for the territory images and subjects becomes one of the possible forms of representation of the «genius of the place» / the «memory» / the «voice of blood» in works of a later period - in the novels of A. Fedorov and N. Krasheninnikov at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.