| Abstract | A crisis of historical representation after 1991 resulted in Kaliningrad, former German Kônigsberg, in the need to re-examine its history. The narrative of origins of the place is closely connected to a question of belonging and of accountability of the Russian State in the protection of its population. Therefore, to revise the history by bringing in individual memory as a source of historical knowledge imposes a difficulty. Enthusiasm of historians and sociologists to legitimize memory in Kaliningrad is met with political resistance. This work examines conditions and reasons for which certain forms of memory are celebrated and others yield for authentication in contemporary Kaliningrad.
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