Author’s personality in daily life and art: research methodology

This article presents a description of the methodology used by the author of the book about the lives of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Tsvetaeva, Rainis, Sviridov, and Yakhina, related to the philosophy of everyday life. For the author, as one of the first participants in the Moscow Methodological Circle, and now in the methodological movement, the issue of methodology is fundamental; in fact, it constitutes an implicit subject of the research based on the ideas of the humanitarian approach, semiotics, and cultural studies. The article is of interest within the framework of such majors as Linguistics and Cultural Studies and the discipline “Theory and Methodology of Scientific Research”.