In the present article Russian memoir texts XVIII century are considered in terms of general trends in the construction of memoirs of the plot, the allocation of these components, without which it can not do almost no autobiographical memory. These links of mandatory memoirs of the plot, of course, are the birth and death. The situation in the birth of Russian memoirs of the XVIII century. It is typically associated with the semantics of the start or continuation (genus, for example). Death as a memoir of the plot component is more semantic and situational variability. As centers of opposition semantic fields, birth and death are ontologically closer to each other. In memoirs on this indicates at least the that birth and death are described by as the process of continuity of generations, providing eternal life.