About the forgotten source for the studies on the literary output of the Russian women writers in the Enlightenment period (reconstruction of the concept and stages of working on the first dictionary of the women writers in Russia)

The article presents the conception of the Materials to the history of the Russian women
writers by Mikhail Makarov (published in the periodical “Damskij zhurnal” 1830, 1833),
including the structure (main part and annex), contents of the entries (time frames, sources
of the information, mistakes etc.) and the reception in the 19th century (criticism
for the mistakes). The interpretive context are the Bibliographical catalogue of the Russian
women writers (1826) by Stepan Russov, Biographical dictionary of the Russian women
writers (1889) by Nikolai Golitsyn and other texts on the women writers (among others
Catherine II) published in the periodical “Damskij zhurnal”.