Two investigated author's interpretations of G. Ivanov's personality – which was described by memorializes – showed different, almost diametrically opposed, perception of one personality by the different authors. Depending on perspective of interpretation, were brightly highlighted personalities of memorializes, especially of author's assignment, which every author wanted to fulfill. In autobiographic genre (N. Berberova "My Italics"), combining chronological narration with author's reflection, the leading of novelistic episodes of author's interpretation of some memoirs subject have to fulfill the illustrative function, corroborating author's characteristics (at first, self-characteristics) and presumptive opinions.
In genre of memoirs portrait (I. Odoyevtseva "On banks of Sena"), narrative orientated, we can see close interaction with the genre of outline. Frequently, as on I. Odoyevtseva's example, architectonics of memoirs is based on cementation of memoirs portraits in large text with fascinating story line and comprehensible world outlook author' a position.
Creating literary-memoirs image of G. Ivanov I. Odoyevtseva depends on spiritual nearness between the motives of world outlook of Ivanov with Lermontov, understanding of world as a dysgarmony, which was keenly felt by contemporaries. The figure of "poisonous", "evil" person, who had the "murderous wittiness", - fixated "points", which were giving to Odoyevtseva a possibility to build the peculiar "culture bridge" between the Golden Age in Russian Literature and Silver Age, to correlate the last one with Russian tradition, to show its continuity.