THE GENRE OF THE ESSAY IN THE LOCAL HISTORY JOURNALISM OF B.P. KNYAZHINSKY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF “NEW LIFE”, USMAN TOWN)

Abstract

The article discusses features of the local history essay in publications of B.P. Knyazhinsky. The considered essays are published in 1957 – 1968 in the “New life”, a district newspaper of the Usmansky district of the Lipetsk region. The author attempts to analyze the local history essay as a genre in order to actualize the ideas of the local history essay as a whole. Although in general the genre of the essay is sufficiently studied at the moment, the peculiarity of this artistic, journalistic and documentary genre is that the essay is simultaneously based on facts (facts of reality, documents, interviews, own observations), it is inherent in the strong influence of the author. In the essays of Knyazhinsky, the “hero” becomes a city, county, province. The author considers these local history essays from the point of view of their journalistic component: relevance for the time of their publication and for the present. This study is designed to fill in the gaps that exist in the study of regional journalism.