Experience of creating a prosopographic portrait of professor Boris Alekseevich Shustov (1880–1945)

Abstract

At the beginning of the 21st century, the personification of history, which sets the basis of events and phenomena of the past person with its extraordinary intellectual and organizational skills, civic position, endowments and concrete Actions. The strong interest of the famous person, observed in recent decades, encourages the researcher not only to write her biography, to list facts and events of life and activity, but also to deepen her personal essence, which often explains the causes and Consequences of biographic facts. That is, the personification of the past, as an actual task of modern historical studios, involves the reproduction of the gallery of famous figures not in the traditional coverage of the usual biography, but in a deeper study of personal and individual content of a particular person or groups of people linked by generic, professional or other relationships.