TY - JOUR N2 - Guidebooks are practical texts that accompany people in navigating through an unknown space. Along with guiding and helping in the logistic organisation of the trip, they narrate the story of the selected place, city or region. Due to this last function, guidebooks can be a valuable source in historical research. Referring to Moscow and Kyiv Soviet guidebooks, the paper discusses the connection between text composition and historical narrative. Using the methodology of semio-tics, the article shows that different elements of city space such as houses, streets, monuments, museums etc. communicate messages about history, society, and identity. Since the city space is a big “warehouse” of objects and meanings, not all of them will be incorporated into the tourist space. The article shows which places were included (but also excluded) in Moscow and Kyiv tourist routes and depicts their connection with the canon of historical events. The paper also looks more closely at the ideological and rhetorical features of guidebook texts and how they reflect the dominant historical narrative. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/121543/PDF-MASTER/2021-HSRK-20-Kovalenko.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/121543 PY - 2021 EP - 369 DO - 10.24425/hsm.2021.138380 KW - guide book KW - historical narrative KW - space KW - city A1 - Kovalenko, Olena PB - Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział PAN w Krakowie PB - Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego VL - tom 51 DA - 2021.11.25 T1 - Historical narratives in urban storytelling. The case of tourist guides to Moscow and Kyiv SP - 352 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/121543 T2 - Historyka Studia Metodologiczne ER -