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Pletnev's typescript memoirs include the following: His autobiography"Nikchemnai︠a︡ zhizn"́ (475 p.); "Den ́v Peterburge" (48 p.), with a description of St. Petersburg and in particular its cultural life before World War I; "U mori︠a︡" (5 p.), on the author's dacha near St. Petersburg; and "Den ́v Gaage" (30 p.), on his visits to a friend in the Hague in the years after the 1917 revolution. The manuscripts are in the third person; the central figure, Oborin, is Pletnev.