Features and value of documents of fund of the personal origin

Abstract

In the article on the basis of analysis of documents of fund of visible political figure Ozbekaly Zhanibekov an author shows to the feature of documents of the personal origin and them sourse studies meaningfulness. To him a certain historical epoch, in that this man had certain public position, official status, surroundings, is related. In composition the personal fund of Ozbekaly Zhanibekov are traditional documents of the personal origin : biographic materials, documents of public and official activity, notebooks, remembrances, working notebooks with records, letters, photos. As compared to the official records of this period they differ in the extraordinary variety of factual material, contain the individual estimation of what be going on events. Originality of documents of the personal origin as historical sources consists in that events and facts of the real life are reflected in them through personality perception of certain people, being eyewitnesses, and quite often and by the participants of taking place events, people, actively proving in professional, public, creative or another relation.