Formation of a “Memorial Place”: Commemorative Materials and Virtual Reconstruction (On the Example of the Memorial Place “Ivanovka”)

Abstract

The current problem of tradition protection, significant objects of culture draws attention of researchers to studying of memorial places, to reactualization of social memory. The article developed characteristic features of memorial places and collective memory research methodology. Generalizes the essential historical and cultural opportunities given by a product "memory places" virtual modeling technologies. In similar researches application of cross-disciplinary approach, use of the methods, technologies and materials provided by historical science, theoretical provisions of cultural anthropology, yielded and results of mathematical modeling and virtual design. The article considered theoretical provisions of the "memory places" historical and cultural reconstruction project, on the example of the memorial places in the territory of the Tambov region connected with a name of the composer S.V. Rachmaninov. A specific place among them by right is held "A Satin's manor "Ivanovka". Marks the main sources of historical and cultural reconstruction of Rachmaninov's memorial places in Tambov region. They include memoirs literature, letters and archive materials. A number of positions on the map of Rachmaninoff's places demand further development, selection and analysis of materials for historical reconstruction. It should be noted, as out of the historical and cultural reconstruction project the content of a research represents a considerable complex of the commemorative materials.