Аннотация:Canadian historian and politician Michael Ignatieff descends from Russian nobles and Scottish aristocrats who
immigrated to Canada in the beginning of the nineteenth century. His two books The Russian Album, 1987 and True
Patriot Love, 2009 retell the story of several generations of his family who lived in Russia and Canada in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This article analyses haunted stories from the past that impacted the formation of
the authors’ personality and social views.