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Grasse Diary (Грасский дневник, 1967), the most famous work by Galina Kuznetsova,for years has been treated mostly as the book about Ivan Bunin. It contains heraccount of fifteen years spent with Bunin in Grasse and Paris, wherefore it has beenattracted particular interest of Bunin’s researchers.Bunin is the central figure of Grasse Diary, yet Kuznetsova, according to Lejeune’s„autobiographical pact”, remains the author, the narrator of her story and characterwho is being talked about. Discrete entries include her experiences, thoughts,feelings, comment on current events. Kuznetsova creates the self-portrait, presentsa deeply subjective vision of the world. Some equal strategies can be found in hernarration: an observer strategy, participant strategy and introspection strategy.The aim of this paper is to analyse them and to interpretate Kuznetsova’s imagegiven in her daily entries.