Image of a Russian estate. The history of the Russian estate and the lifestyle of its inhabitants. Russian estates of the 19th century as a source of inspiration

The estate as the basis of noble life, economy and culture of the Russian Empire was a vivid expression of national genius and a place of contact between elite and popular cultures. The vanished world of the Russian estate has left a lot of literary and documentary evidence. Equal, from a historical point of view, although not equal in artistic qualities, the photographs recreate the bygone poetic world of family nests and pictures of the private life of great nobles and merchant families. Having observed the disappearance of estate culture A.N. Grech argued that after 1930 it should be perceived only “through the eyes of memory.” By visualizing the memory of several pre-revolutionary generations, photographic images reveal this phenomenon of Russian life visibly and fully. The estate appears at the exhibition from several angles: from ceremonial views of large estates and amateur photographs from family albums to artistic images of ancient parks and abandoned estates.

The exhibition opens with custom-made ceremonial views of estates, made by masters of the largest studios. The plot of the estate views, the printing features, and sometimes the composition were determined not only by the ideas of the photographer himself, but also by the wishes of the customer. The photographs document architectural complexes and landscapes, and capture the owners in their favorite estates. The famous ones, Ilyinskoye and Porechye, are depicted in a similar way. To unique examples of early estate photography of the 1860s. include stereo daguerreotypes from the T. Schneider and Sons" with the interiors of Maryin, photographs taken by M.N. Sherer, and created by M.B. Tulinov.

Amateur photographs, the authors of which are the owners and guests of the estates themselves, are distinguished by the spontaneity of their subjects and the vividness of their composition. The subjects of the photographs are varied: genre scenes (picnics, boating, walking), portraits of servants and guests, personal rooms, sweet secluded corners of the park and surrounding area. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, photography became an accessible form of artistic activity. Summer leisure in Russian society is traditionally associated with the estate, so images of everyday joyful life on the estate have become widespread. The appearance of amateur photographs is not related to the aesthetic or historical value of the estate; they were generated by the harmonious atmosphere of estate life and common family activities.

Documentary photographs reflect the era that emerged in the 1890s–1910s. great interest in the study and preservation of the Russian estate with its artistic and historical artifacts. The estate began to be perceived as a unique synthetic phenomenon of art and a place of ancestral memory. Photographers recorded the features of the architectural ensemble and interior complex of the estates. P.P. turned to photography of architecture and views for the purpose of photographic documentation of monuments. Pavlov, N.N. Ushakov, A.A. Ivanov-Terentyev.

At the beginning of the 20th century. The myth of the Russian estate took literary and artistic form, and an idea was formed of it as a symbol of the passing culture of the nobility. The author's eye of the photographers was attracted by landscapes and details that conveyed the special passeistic mood of estate life - the poetry of dying, passing greatness. The main objects of the image - the estate nature and the park - became spiritual and emotionally charged. The artistically transformed image of the estate, as if hidden by a light haze of memory, corresponds to the techniques of pictorial photography. The idea of ​​the estate was embodied in the iconic images of photography - the young lady and the alley. Most of the works come from the collections of the Russian Photographic Society, the crown jewel of the Historical Museum’s photo collection. Photos by A.S. Mazurina, N.A. Petrova, N.S. Krotkova, V.N. Chasovnikova, V.N. Shokhin's works were demonstrated at competitions and were selected for the future museum of light painting.

The 1920s is the last significant period in the development of the estate theme. Interest in studying the estate heritage and the poetry of destroyed nests attracted leading Soviet photographers. Having become exclusively a phenomenon of the past, the estate acquired the possibility of new interpretations. Photo studies of outstanding domestic masters embody the no longer beautiful past Silver Age, but the past, irretrievably lost, perished past. Most of the photographs were shown at the famous exhibition " Soviet photography for 10 years" 1928. Subsequently, the disappearance of estate culture as a living and powerful tradition led to the absence of the image of the estate in Soviet photography.

The Russian estate was the basis of the economy and culture of the Russian Empire. We find a description of the estate way of life of the nobility in the works of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. Beautiful mansions with gardens, parks and ponds were captured by painters of more than one generation, including Kandinsky and Sudeikin. The ROSPHOTO exhibition shows another side of estate life - photographs from the collection of the State Historical Museum, allowing you to plunge into the atmosphere of our country's past, see professional and amateur photographs of long-forgotten or abandoned estates.

The exhibition opens with custom-made views of estates made by masters of famous photographic studios in the 19th century. Typically, these photographs are reminiscent of today's advertising shoots, as they are designed to show the estate at its best, both from an architectural and landscape perspective. They are also somewhat presentational in nature, since they are portraits of the owners against the backdrop of their own estates. The estates of Ostafyevo, Arkhangelskoye, Ilyinskoye and others are depicted in a similar way.

Peasants near a manor house in Nikolsko-Prozorovsky. Photo by Mikhail Tulinov. Mid 1860s

View of the main house in Islavskoye. Unknown photographer. 1914

Waiting for the horse. Photo by Nikolai Krotkov. 1899

On the contrary, the amateur photographs presented at the exhibition are distinguished by the spontaneity of the subject and the vividness of the composition. The authors of these photographs are usually the owners of the estates or one of their guests. These frames, taken from family albums, best convey the atmosphere of manor life - picnics on the grass, boat rides, walks, dear secluded corners of the park and surrounding area.

Interior in Pokrovsky. Atelier "Photograph of the Resurrection Monastery by Hierodeacon Diodorus." 1878

Portrait of Princess Zinaida Nikolaevna Yusupova in Arkhangelskoye. Photo by Daniil Asikritov. Around 1900

Girl with roses. Photo by Nikolai Petrov. 1900s

Photographs from the early twentieth century do not so much convey the atmosphere as they try to preserve for history the phenomenon of a Russian estate. This is not artistic or staged photography; rather, it is photographic documentation of a passing history for future generations. And already in the 1920s, photographers were photographing the estate as a lost culture that had irretrievably sunk into the past.

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II. Chapter 1. Idealizing concept of a noble estate

1.1. Childhood as a time of heavenly existence

1.2. Love in the works of the idealizing concept of a noble estate

1.3. Trinity Day as one of the components of the estate myth

1.4. "The Mystery of the Family"

Chapter 2. Critical concept of the noble estate

2.1. Childhood as a reflection of the distorted foundations of life on a noble estate

2.2. Love in the works of the critical concept of the noble estate

2.3. Ancestral memory and fatal predestination

IV. Chapter 3. Dialectical concept of a noble estate

3.1. Childhood as a reflection of the completeness and contradictory nature of existence

3.2. Love in the works of the dialectical concept of a noble estate

3.3. Literary centricity as one of the main features of the image of a noble estate

3.4. Noble estate and St. Petersburg

3.5. Ancestral memory, creative activity of the individual

Introduction of the dissertation (part of the abstract) on the topic “The image of a noble estate in Russian prose of the late 19th - early 20th centuries”

The appearance of the image of a noble estate in fiction was a consequence of Catherine II’s decree (“Charter Granted to the Nobility,” 1785) on the exemption of the nobility from military service, after which the role and significance of noble estate life in Russian culture began to strengthen. At the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th centuries, the noble estate experienced its heyday, after which its gradual decline began, until 1917.

During the first half of the 19th century, the noble estate was included in works of art, mainly as a human habitat, a certain way of life characterizing the owner of the estate (nobleman), his moral and spiritual principles, way of life and culture, although already during this period the process began symbolizing the image of a noble estate, which, in particular, finds expression in the works of A.S. Pushkin. In the second half of the 19th century, when the crisis of this way of life became most noticeable, the noble estate declared itself as a special cultural phenomenon, which they began to actively study, describe, and strive to preserve. In the 80-90s of the 19th century, people began to talk about estates as cultural monuments; from 1909 to 1915, the Society for the Protection and Preservation of Monuments of Art and Antiquity in Russia operated in St. Petersburg.

In the fiction of the second half of the 19th century, estate masterpieces by S.T. Aksakov, I.S. Turgenev, I.A. Goncharov, and L.N. Tolstoy were created. The concept of a family noble nest, introduced into culture by the Slavophiles (Shchukin, 1994, p. 41), is gaining more and more strength and significance and by the end of the 19th century is perceived as one of the central symbols of Russian culture.

At the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries, writers of various views, belonging to different literary movements and associations, paid increased attention to the image of a noble estate. Among them we can name the names of such literary artists as A.P. Chekhov, I.A. Bunin, B.K. Zaitsev, A.N. Tolstoy, M.A. Kuzmin, N.G. Garin-Mikhailovsky, A. Bely, F.K. Sologub, G.I. Chulkov, S.N. Sergeev-Tsensky, B.A. Sadovskoy, S.A. Auslender, P.S. Romanov,

S.M.Gorodetsky and many others. As a result, a huge layer of fiction was created, in which the image of a noble estate received detailed development and multifaceted coverage.

The relevance of the study is due to the active growth of interest in the lost values ​​of national culture and attempts to revive them. Appeal to the image of a noble estate is necessary, in our opinion, to solve the problem of self-identification of Russian culture. Comprehension of the image of a noble estate as one of the fundamental symbols of Russia is a way of national self-knowledge and self-preservation and represents the possibility of restoring a vast complex of moral and aesthetic norms, largely lost in the vicissitudes of recent centuries.

The object of research in the dissertation is images of a noble estate in Russian prose of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. The subject of the dissertation is a noble estate as a phenomenon of the Russian literary process at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries. The research material consists of works of art by such writers as A.P. Chekhov, I.A. Bunin, B.K. Zaitsev, A.N. Tolstoy, M.A. Kuzmin, N.G. Garin-Mikhailovsky, D.V. .Grigorovich, A.Bely, F.K.Sologub, G.I.Chulkov, I.A.Novikov, S.N.Sergeev-Tsensky, B.A.Sadovskoy, S.A.Auslender, P.S.Romanov , I.I.Yasinsky, S.M.Gorodetsky, A.V.Amphiteatrov, M.P.Artsybashev, A.N.Budishchev, V.V.Muizhel. Prose and poetic works other writers and poets of the 19th - first third of the 20th centuries.

The degree of study of the issue. The noble estate in pre-revolutionary and modern science has been studied and is being studied to a greater extent from a historical and cultural perspective. Since the 70s of the 19th century, as G. Zlochevsky notes, guidebooks to Moscow have appeared, which necessarily include a section on estates (for example, guidebooks by N.K. Kondratiev “The Hoary Antiquity of Moscow” (1893), S.M. Lyubetsky “ Neighborhoods of Moscow." (2nd ed., 1880)). From 1913 to 1917, the magazine “Capital and Estate” was published (the title of this magazine already reflected the contrast between the estate and capital worlds in Russian culture); publications about estates are also published in a number of other magazines. Monographs devoted to the history and architecture of individual estates also appeared before the revolution. In particular, in 1912 the book of the book was published. M.M. Golitsyn about the Petrovskoye estate, Zvenigorod district, Moscow province (“Russian estates. Issue 2. Petrovskoye”), in 1916 - the work of P.S. Sheremetev “Vyazemy”. Memoirs of individual representatives of the nobility, as well as collections including memoirs of a number of authors, are published. So in 1911, edited by N.N. Rusov, the book “Landlord Russia according to the Notes of Contemporaries” was published, which collected memoirs of representatives of the nobility of the late 18th - early 19th centuries. But in pre-revolutionary science, according to G. Zlochevsky, a comprehensive study of estate culture was not carried out; publications about estates were mainly of a descriptive nature; the authors of articles and monographs acted more as historians and chroniclers (Zlochevsky, 1993, p. 85).

During the Soviet period, the study of the noble estate practically ceased, or was carried out from an ideological standpoint. In 1926, for example, E.S. Kots’ book “The Serf Intelligentsia” was published, in which local life is presented from a negative side (in particular, the author examines in detail the issue of serf harems). Memoirs written in Soviet times become available to readers, as a rule, only after many years. So, for example, in 2000, the memoirs of L.D. Dukhovskaya (nee Voyekova) were published, the author of which tries to rehabilitate the estate culture in the eyes of his contemporaries: “I still saw the life of the last “Noble Nests” and in my notes about them I am looking for justification for them and themselves.” (Dukhovskaya, 2000, p. 345).

An active revival of interest in the noble estate began in the last decade of the 20th century. There are many historical and cultural works devoted to the study of life, culture, architecture, and the history of noble estates. Among them, one should name the work of Yu.M. Lotman “Conversations about Russian culture. Life and traditions of the Russian nobility (XVIII - early XIX centuries)" (St. Petersburg, 1997), as well as collections of the Society for the Study of Russian Estates, which include the works of many researchers (G.Yu. Sternin, O.S. Evangulova, T. P. Kazhdan, M. V. Nashchokina, L. P. Sokolova, L. V. Rasskazova, E. N. Savinova,

V.I. Novikov, A.A. Shmelev, A.V. Razina, E.G. Safonov, M.Yu. Korobka, T.N. Golovin and others). It is also necessary to note the fundamental collective work “Noble and merchant rural estates in Russia in the 16th - 20th centuries.” (M., 2001); collections “The World of the Russian Estate” (M., 1995) and “Noble Nests of Russia. History, culture, architecture" (Moscow, 2000); works by L.V. Ershova (Ershova, 1998), V. Kuchenkova (Kuchenkova, 2001), E.M. Lazareva (Lazareva, 1999),

S.D. Okhlyabinin (Okhlyabinin, 2006), E.V. Lavrentieva (Lavrentieva, 2006).

In recent years, in addition, several dissertations have been defended examining the estate as a phenomenon of Russian culture, economics, and politics (Popova M.S. Russian noble estate in the context of the mentality of Russian culture (M., 2004); Kuznetsova Yu.M. Russian noble estate estate. Economic, political and socio-cultural aspects (Samara, 2005); Ponomareva M.V. Noble estate in cultural artistic life Russia (M., 2005)).

The authors of these works strive to substantiate the significance of the noble estate for the history of Russia, to show the organic connection of the noble estate with Russian culture, to prove that the estate was not something alien in relation to the latter, but was its integral part. In the noted historical-cultural-cultural works, the Russian noble estate is considered as a special microcosm, the whole Universe (O.S. Evangulova, T.P. Kazhdan, M.V. Nashchokina), which is a universal symbol of Russian life (G.Yu. Sternin) , the quintessence of the Russian state (M.V. Nashchokina, Yu.M. Kuznetsova), the center of formation, development and preservation of dominant features national culture, an indicator of the state of Russian culture (Popova M.S.). Scientists especially emphasize the value of the personal, individual beginning in a noble estate (each estate, “both literally and figuratively, is “handmade”” (Kuznetsova, 2005, p. 146); “self-portrait of the owner” (Evangulova, 1996, p.49); even “parts of the garden [.] became, as it were, parts [.] of the internal world” of the owners (Nashchokina, 2001, p. 12)), as well as the metaphorical correlation in Russian culture of the estate with the image of the Garden of Eden.

However, as we have already noted, the subject of study of these works is the noble estate as a phenomenon of Russian history, economics, and culture. The appeal of scientists to Russian literature in these cases is limited to the task of simply illustrating certain features of its history, economic and everyday life.

The image of a noble estate in Russian literature of the 18th - 20th centuries receives a broader and more multifaceted coverage in the book by E.E. Dmitrieva and O.N. Kuptsova “The Life of an Estate Myth: Paradise Lost and Found” (M., 2003). The authors turn to a huge number of literary sources, including few or completely unknown ones. However, this work is more art criticism than literary criticism. Works of fiction are often used as illustrative material for cultural aspects, showing how a real-life estate influenced Russian literature, or, conversely, how literature shaped “manor life, and the real estate space, and the very way of living in the estate” (Dmitrieva, Kuptsova, 2003, p. 5).

A comprehensive literary study of the image of a noble estate in prose at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries as a phenomenon of the Russian literary process has not yet been created.

The image of a noble estate was most fully studied in Russian literature of the second half of the 19th century, in the works of S.T. Aksakov, I.S. Turgenev, I.A. Goncharov, L.N. Tolstoy (see, for example, the works of V.M. Markovich “I.S. Turgenev and the Russian realistic novel of the 19th century” (L., 1982), V.G. Shchukin “The Myth of the Noble Nest. Geocultural research in Russian. classical literature"(Krakow, 1997); V.B. Legonkova “The image of a noble estate in the works of S.T. Aksakov, I.S. Turgenev and L.N. Tolstoy” (Magnitogorsk, 1991); G.N. Popova “The World of the Russian Province in the Novels of I.A. Goncharov” (Elets, 2002)).

In Russian prose of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, the image of a noble estate is considered based on the material of the works of a limited circle of authors. Thus, critics of the early 20th century focused on the depiction of local life in the works of I.A. Bunin and A.N. Tolstoy, as well as A.V. Amfiteatrov and S.N. Sergeev-Tsensky. However, in the critical works of the early 20th century there is no consideration of the image of the noble estate as a phenomenon of Russian culture in the literature of a certain period as a whole. Critics such as K. Chukovsky (Chukovsky, 1914, p. 73-88), V. Lvov-Rogachevsky (Lvov-Rogachevsky, 1911, p. 240-265), G. Chulkov (Chulkov, 1998, p. 392- 395), N. Korobka (Korobka, 1912, p. 1263-1268), E. Koltonovskaya (Koltonovskaya, 1916, p. 70-84), V. Cheshikhin-Vetrinsky (Cheshikhin-Vetrinsky, 1915, p. 70-84 ), E. Lundberg (Lundberg, 1914, p. 51), A. Gvozdev (Gvozdev, 1915, p. 241-242), characterizing the image of local life in the works of the above-mentioned writers, limit themselves to one or two phrases, only mentioning conversion authors to the depiction of local life. So, for example, G. Chulkov, analyzing the story “New Year” by I. A. Bunin, speaks of the miraculous power of the estate, awakening a feeling of love in the characters (Chulkov, 1998, p. 394). V. Cheshikhin-Vetrinsky, considering such works of A. N. Tolstoy as “The Lame Master” and “Ravines,” emphasize the “warm, sincere attitude of the author” towards the provincial noble life and “the people of this life” (Cheshikhin-Vetrinsky, 1915, p.438). E. Koltonovskaya writes about the writer’s attempt in the “Trans-Volga” cycle to “look into the elemental depths of the Russian man, his nature, his soul” through the depiction of the local nobility (Koltonovskaya, 1916, p. 72).

Having been noticed in the works of I.A. Bunin, A.N. Tolstoy, A.V. Amfitheatrov and S.N. Sergeev-Tsensky, but not having received sufficient development here, the image of a noble estate in the works of other writers we are considering at the end of the 19th century - the beginning of the 20th century was completely unstudied by criticism of the “Silver Age”.

In modern literary scholarship, the image of a noble estate in the works of many authors at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries still remains unstudied. Scientists such as N.V. Barkovskaya (Barkovskaya, 1996), L.A. Kolobaeva (Kolobaeva, 1990), Yu.V. Maltsev (Maltsev, 1994), M.V. Mikhailova (Mikhailova, 2004), O. V. Slivitskaya (Slivitskaya, 2004), R.S. Spivak (Spivak, 1997), turn to the image of a noble estate in the works of I.A. Bunin, A. Bely, F.K. Sologub, I.A. Novikov. But in the works of these scientists, the image of a noble estate is not the object of a special, detailed analysis.

The image of a noble estate becomes the subject of a separate study in the works of N.S. Avilova (Avilova, 2001), U.K. Abisheva (Abisheva, 2002). G.A. Golotina (Golotina, 1985), L.V. Ershova (Ershova, 1998, 1999, 2002), N.V. Zaitseva (Zaitseva, 1999), L.P. Solomakhina (Solomakhina, 2000), dedicated to famous for the works of I.A. Bunin and A.N. Tolstoy.

Literary scholarship identifies the reasons for the destruction and decline of the noble estate in the works of I.A. Bunin, notes the dialectical nature of Bunin’s concept of the estate, as well as the idealization of estate life in the emigrant work of the writer.

L.V. Ershova in the article “Images-symbols of the estate world in the prose of I.A. Bunin” speaks about the writer’s ambivalent attitude towards the world of the noble estate and divides the symbols in the works of I.A. Bunin into two rows: negative, “reflecting desolation and the death of the former “golden mine” of the Russian province,” and positive, “associated with deep and sincere nostalgia, with memory, which tends to idealize the past, elevate and romanticize it” (Ershova, 2002, p. 105). In the emigrant period, from the researcher’s point of view, the positive and negative series of images-symbols opposed to each other come to a dialectical unity - “the estate culture is presented in them as part of all-Russian history” (Ershova, 2002, p. 107). In the article “Bunin's Lyrics and Russian Estate Culture” by L.V. Ershova, the simultaneous depiction of the decline of the noble estate and its poeticization in the poetry of I.A. Bunin is noted. As the researcher writes, the antithesis “estate-capital” is reflected in I.A. Bunin’s lyrics; external to the estate figurative system The artist contrasts with the warmth of the house, which is protection and a talisman for the lyrical hero.

A different point of view on the image of a house by I.A. Bunin is presented in the work of G.A. Golotina. Considering the theme of the house in the lyrics of I.A. Bunin, the author talks about the doom of the family nest to destruction and death and believes that if in the early poems the house is a reliable protection in all the vicissitudes of life, then from the beginning of the 1890s the house is with I. A. Bunina was never a prosperous family nest.

N.V. Zaitseva traces the evolution of the image of a noble estate in I. A. Bunin’s prose of the 1890s - early 1910s, and concludes that the estate in the writer’s works is small-scale.

In the prose of A.N. Tolstoy, the image of a noble estate is considered in the works of L.V. Ershova (Ershova, 1998), N.S. Avilova (Avilova, 2001), U.K. Abisheva (Abisheva, 2002). But the range of the writer’s works that these researchers turn to is limited (“Nikita’s Childhood”, “The Dreamer (Haggai Korovin)”). Many aspects of the artistic depiction of a noble estate in the works of A.N. Tolstoy remain unstudied.

L.V. Ershova in her article “The World of the Russian Estate in the Artistic Interpretation of the Writers of the First Wave of Russian Emigration” notes a strong tendency to idealize the image of the noble estate in A.N. Tolstoy’s “The Childhood of Nikita”, which is explained, according to the researcher, by the depiction of the world of childhood in the work . N.S. Avilova writes about the contrast in “Nikita’s Childhood” with the image of the estate as reliable security and protection of the heroes with the image of the surrounding steppe. U.K. Abisheva in the article “Artistic reception of Russian estate prose in the story “The Dreamer (Haggai Korovin)” by A. Tolstoy” reveals the traditional and innovative in Tolstoy’s understanding of estate life.

The scientific novelty of the dissertation work is determined by the research material (for analysis, a large volume of works of the late 19th and early 20th centuries is used, in which the image of a noble estate was not previously the object of study); an integrated approach to the study of the image of a noble estate as a phenomenon of Russian culture in the literature of the late 19th - early 20th centuries in general; historical and typological approach to its study; new aspects for literary studies in considering the image of a noble estate.

The purpose of the dissertation is to examine the image of a noble estate as one of the central symbols of Russian culture, representative of the modernization of Russian artistic consciousness at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries.

Achieving this goal involves solving the following tasks: - to identify and describe the general system of universals in which the image of a Russian noble estate in prose of the late 19th - early 20th centuries is interpreted and assessed;

To create a typology of the image of a noble estate in the fiction of the designated period, revealing the main trends in the artistic understanding of the historical path of Russia in prose at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries; -analyze the features of the artistic depiction of a noble estate by the leading trends in the Russian literary process of the late 19th - early 20th centuries;

To trace the fate of the moral code of the noble estate in the literature of the first wave of Russian emigration, as well as its influence on the formation of both the opposition line of Soviet literature and literature biased by the official ideology. Main provisions submitted for defense:

1. In Russian prose of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, there were three concepts of the noble estate: idealizing, critical, dialectical, which together captured the dynamics of the historical process in the Russian public consciousness at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries.

2. Each concept forms its own image of the artistic world. Three artistic models of a noble estate are created through the writers’ interpretation and assessment of the estate’s way of life in common system universals, which include childhood, love, and ancestral memory.

3. The image of a noble estate in works with a predominant idealizing concept is depicted as the embodiment of moral and aesthetic norms that are of decisive importance for Russian culture: stability, the value of the personal principle, a sense of connection between times, reverence for traditions, life in unity with the earthly and heavenly world.

4. The critical concept destroys the idyllic-mythologized image of the noble estate, debunks the moral foundations of the estate culture. The childhood and love of noble heroes are depicted by the authors as “distorted”; the burden of the consciousness of the inhabitants of the noble estate with ancestral memory is thought of as the reason for its death.

5. The works of the dialectical concept are characterized by a synthesis of an idealizing and critical view of the phenomenon of the noble estate in the history and culture of Russia. In the image of a noble estate, the same spiritual values ​​and foundations are affirmed as in the works of an idealizing concept. However, the estate world in the works of this group is no longer ideal; it includes an element of disharmony.

6. The artistic interpretation of the image of a noble estate by representatives of various literary movements reflected the main features of the Russian literary process of the late 19th - early 20th centuries.

7. The moral code of the noble estate left a big mark on Russian culture in subsequent periods: it had a noticeable influence on the literature of the Russian abroad, as well as on the formation of both the opposition line of Soviet literature and literature biased by the official ideology.

The methodological basis of the work is an integrated approach to the study of literary heritage, focused on a combination of several methods of literary analysis: historical-typological, cultural-contextual, structural-semiotic, mythopoetic. The solution to the research problems formulated above led to reference to the works

M.M. Bakhtin, V.A. Keldysh, B.O. Korman, D.S. Likhachev, A.F. Losev, Yu.M. Lotman, E.M. Meletinsky, V.N. Toporov, V. I. Tyupa. The theoretical categories used in the dissertation (artistic image, artistic world, mode of artistry, chronotope, symbol, myth) are interpreted by us according to the developments of the named scientists.

Theoretical significance of the dissertation. The dissertation enriches the tools of literary analysis with 1) new models of chronotopes; 2) a system of new universals, productive for transitional periods of cultural development; 3) confirms and concretizes, using new material, as a general pattern, the multidirectionality of artistic quests of the literary process of transition periods.

The practical significance of the work is associated with the possibility of using its materials and results in general lecture courses on the history of Russian literature and special courses on the history of Russian prose and Russian culture of the 19th-20th centuries.

Approbation of work. The main provisions of the dissertation are reflected in 16 publications (7 theses, 9 articles), including in a peer-reviewed printed publication recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation for the publication of works of applicants for academic degrees, as well as in reports at international, all-Russian, interuniversity conferences in the years. Perm, Solikamsk, Izhevsk, St. Petersburg, Moscow.

Structure of the dissertation. The work consists of an introduction, three chapters, a conclusion and a bibliography, including 220 titles. The first chapter, “The Idealizing Concept of a Noble Estate,” examines the principles of idealizing the image of an estate through the approval of moral and aesthetic norms that make up the code of estate life. The second chapter, “The Critical Concept of the Noble Estate,” is devoted to the consideration of the opposite phenomenon to idealization: criticism of the noble estate, debunking the moral foundations of the estate culture. The third chapter, “The Dialectical Concept of a Noble Estate,” analyzes the process of synthesis of idealization and criticism that forms such

Conclusion of the dissertation on the topic “Russian Literature”, Popova, Olga Aleksandrovna

Conclusion

The noble estate is one of the most mysterious phenomena of Russian culture, with many still unresolved questions associated with it. In Russian literature of the 18th - 20th centuries, the image of a noble estate was repeatedly recreated, comprehended and rethought. At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries, this image became one of the central ones in Russian literature, representative of the modernization of Russian artistic consciousness at the turn of the century: the appeal to the image of a noble estate is accompanied by a rethinking by writers of many questions posed by Russian literature and culture of the 18th - 19th centuries, as well as the formulation new problems associated with the further development of Russia.

The assessment of the role and place of the noble estate in the history and culture of Russia in the prose of the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, as we have seen, is far from the same. Its range ranges from absolute idealization to the same absolute criticism, complete overthrow and debunking of the vital foundations of the noble estate. However, to a greater extent, the writers of this period are characterized by an ambivalent attitude towards the noble estate, simultaneous recognition of its merits and mistakes.

In Russian literature of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, three concepts of the noble estate, three views on one of the most profound and multifaceted, in our opinion, symbols of Russian culture, emerged, as was shown in our work. In works of an idealizing concept, idealization and mythologization of the image of a noble estate predominates. This concept forms a special image of the artistic world, which is based on the idyllic chronotope of “Home” - as a national form of paradise, the original heavenly abode of the soul. The time of this chronotope is the original time of creation, paradise existence, characterized by uniformity and cyclicity. The space of a noble estate in works of an idealizing concept simultaneously has such properties as introversion and extroversion, harmoniously combining a certain isolation and self-sufficiency with openness and limitlessness. In the works of representatives of the idealizing concept, those foundations of the local way of life are highlighted and symbolized, the essence of which is connected with the eternal principles of existence (B.K. Zaitsev, I.A. Novikov, P.S. Romanov, A.N. Tolstoy). The image of a noble estate in works of an idealizing concept is accompanied by motifs of childhood as a paradise, legendary existence, memory, mystery and inviolability of the past, deep kinship with the past. The very idealization of the noble estate in this group of works becomes the key to preserving the personal principle, one’s individuality in a rapidly changing world - through the affirmation of eternal, from the point of view of writers, life values ​​and foundations: childhood, love, memory, relationship with nature.

A completely different view of the image we are considering is presented in the works of a critical concept, the purpose of which is to destroy the idyllic-mythologized image of the noble estate, to debunk its moral and aesthetic norms. The critical concept, as well as the idealizing one, forms a special image of the artistic world of the estate, which in this case is based on the chronotope of the “dacha”. This chronotope is characterized by temporality and limitation. The space of the “dacha” chronotope is characterized by extreme isolation, artificiality, and impenetrability. In this chronotope, such artistic modes as comedy, humor, and irony find expression. The works of the critical concept emphasize the extinction of life, the economic and spiritual degeneration of the noble estate culture. The nobility is characterized by a tendency to extreme tyranny, to unbearable exploitation of the peasantry; noble heroes are overly exalted, incapable of actively transforming reality (A.N. Tolstoy, S.N. Sergeev-Tsensky, S.M. Gorodetsky, A.N. Budishchev, A.V. Amphiteatrov, B.A. Sadovskoy). In the works of a number of representatives of the critical concept, when destroying the myth of the estate as a promised land, another myth is created, a kind of anti-myth of the noble estate, in which the estate world appears as terrible and mysterious, engulfed by the forces of fate that deprive the heroes vital energy leading them to death, often to suicide (B.A. Sadovskoy, S.M. Gorodetsky, S.N. Sergeev-Tsensky).

A peculiar synthesis of idyllic and critical views on the image of a noble estate occurs in the dialectical concept (I.A. Bunin, A.P. Chekhov, N.G. Garin-Mikhailovsky, A. Bely, G.I. Chulkov, S.A. Auslender etc.). In the works of this concept, such artistic modes as tragic and dramatic are expressed. The basis of the artistic world of the estate in the works of the designated concept is the dramatic chronotope of the “crossroads”. The works of the dialectical concept reflect the complexity and inconsistency of the estate world; The attitude of writers towards the estate can be described as “attraction-repulsion”. Along with the poeticization of estate life and the recognition of the basic values ​​of noble culture, the authors show the retreat of the estate into the past. In the works of the dialectical concept, the life of a noble estate is included in the broad context of Russian and world culture. Writers introduce into their works many reminiscences and allusions to Russian and Western European art. Rethinking cultural traditions leads to the understanding that the golden past of the noble estate has outlived its usefulness, but with it the moral and aesthetic values ​​of the noble culture die, for which there is no replacement. This view of the noble estate is marked by tragedy.

It would be wrong, in our opinion, to talk about the limitations of any of the concepts presented above. Each concept reveals its own sides of the noble estate, makes its own accents, and carries its own truth. The work of one and the same writer can combine different views on the image of a noble estate, forming the author’s multifaceted view of the problem we are considering (A.P. Chekhov, A.N. Tolstoy, G.I. Chulkov, S.A. Auslander). In the image of the noble estate as a whole, as a phenomenon of Russian historical reality of the 18th - early 20th centuries, from our point of view, the general feature of the Russian soul is reflected: Russia is “contradictory, antinomic,” and one can know its secret, as N.A. writes. Berdyaev, only immediately recognizing its “terrible inconsistency” (Berdyaev, 1997, p. 228).

At the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries, increased attention was paid to the image of the noble estate, as we have shown, by writers of the most diverse views, belonging to different literary movements and associations. Analysis of all the main options for depicting the estate allows us to raise the question of the features of the embodiment of this image within different artistic directions the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries: the naturalistic tradition, the realistic, the directions of symbolism, acmeism, writers of the “intermediate type” (Keldysh).

The naturalistic tradition is characterized by a critical attitude towards the image of the Russian noble estate and towards noble heroes. We include such works considered in our work as “Fire-Color” by A.V. Amfiteatrov and “Fractures of Love” by A.N. Budishchev to the naturalistic tradition. Novel

We include A.V.Amphiteatrov in this tradition, in particular, following

V.L. Lvov-Rogachevsky, who noted in the article “A Writer Without Fiction” (1911) the excessive naturalism of the writer’s artistic style. The depiction of a noble estate in the named works of A.V.Amphiteatrov and A.N.Budishchev is not individualized; in the center of the work is not so much a personal conflict, the inner world of the hero, as the imprinting of a certain social (noble) environment, society as such. The purpose of these works is to study this social group (nobility) using the achievements of advanced science, using scientific terminology (novel by A.V. Amfiteatrova). By the end of the works of these writers, a certain mental illness characteristic of a given social group is revealed, and its diagnosis is made. According to A.V. Amfiteatrov and A.N. Budishchev, the root of the mental deviations of the nobility lies not in socio-historical or existential areas (as happens in the works of realism or modernism), but in the natural laws of nature and human physiology.

The most multifaceted image of the Russian noble estate in the literature of the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries was embodied in the works of the realistic tradition. All the concepts of the noble estate we considered were reflected in the work of realist writers: idealizing, critical, dialectical. The attitude of writers to the image of a noble estate is determined, in our opinion, by both the problems emphasized in the work, the tasks that the author sets for himself, the time and place of writing the work, and creative individuality author. The artistic interpretation of the image of a noble estate by writers of the realistic tradition reflected the main features of realism of the early 20th century. The emphasis in the image of a noble estate of socio-historical issues is combined with problems of a universal, substantial nature (D.V. Grigorovich, N.G. Garin-Mikhailovsky, I.A. Bunin, A.N. Tolstoy, S.N. Sergeev-Tsensky ). The widespread use of subject details, a certain determination of character by the historical setting is complemented by an appeal to the poetics of other directions (the use of symbolism, impressionistic imagery, strengthening of the lyrical principle).

A new, although largely prepared by Russian culture and literature of past centuries, understanding of the noble estate occurs in the works of symbolist writers. In their works, the image of a noble estate is largely devoid of concrete historical content and becomes a deeply philosophically loaded symbol. Thus, in A. Bely’s novels “Silver Dove” and “Petersburg”, the image of a noble estate is considered by the author in connection with the problem of the collision of West and East in Russia, as well as with the problem of confrontation in the culture of Dionysian and Apollonian principles. In the works of the mystical symbolist G.I. Chulkov, the noble estate becomes a special model of the universe, having its own internal laws and having its own life, different from other worlds. The main essence of this world is, from the point of view of G.I. Chulkov, the indissoluble unity in it of the life of the past and the present - not only of noble culture, but of the entire human race.

The image of a noble estate as a model of the Universe is also clearly represented in the works of such a symbolist as I.A. Novikov. Unlike the works of A. Bely and G. I. Chulkov, in which the spirit of destruction and gradual extinction wafts over the image of a noble estate, characteristic of the work of I. A. Novikov is the idea of ​​a noble estate as a special harmoniously arranged world. In the noble estate of I.A. Novikov, the fullness of being is embodied with its joys and sufferings, dreams and reality, gains and losses, meetings and separations, where the human soul can develop harmoniously and holistically. It is in a world such as the image of a noble estate in the writer’s works that the basic essential laws of the world order can be fully embodied.

The artistic interpretation of the image of a noble estate also acquires its own characteristics in the works of the Acmeists. The principles of Acmeism find expression, in our opinion, in such works considered in our work as “The Dreamers” (1912), “The Dead Woman in the House” (1913) by M.A. Kuzmin and “The Terrible Estate” (1913) by S.M. Gorodetsky. In understanding the image of a noble estate for M.A. Kuzmin and S.M. Gorodetsky, as well as for the symbolists, socio-historical issues, important for realists, are unimportant. Unlike the works of symbolists and realists, in the above-mentioned works of M.A. Kuzmin and S.M. Gorodetsky there is no symbolization of the image of a noble estate (“A = A”). As Acmeists, M.A. Kuzmin and S.M. Gorodetsky are more interested in the aesthetic and cultural fullness of the image we are considering. Descriptions of the manor park, halls and furnishings of the manor house serve as aesthetic signs of the bygone era of “noble nests”.

M.A. Kuzmin and S.M. Gorodetsky are united by a negative attitude towards the image of a noble estate. In the images of noble heroes, writers, as a negative thing, emphasize detachment from real life reality, illusoryness, addiction to dreams, passion for theosophy, occult sciences, and magic. All this, from the point of view of M.A. Kuzmin and S.M. Gorodetsky, takes the heroes away from real life and deprives them of the joy of being. This is the position of M.A. Kuzmin and

S.M. Gorodetsky differs from the opinion of the symbolists, who see the possession of secret spiritual knowledge and skills by noble heroes as the only opportunity for their harmonious existence in the world (F.K. Sologub, G.I. Chulkov). In the works of M.A. Kuzmin and S.M. Gorodetsky, the image of a noble estate, saturated with an atmosphere of mystery, fatal predestination, the relationship between the world of the dead and the world of the living, is contrasted with real life with its freedom, beauty, joy. The exit (more precisely, the escape) of the heroes from the estate (or estate-dacha) is equated in the works of writers to the return from death to life (“The Dead Woman in the House” by M.A. Kuzmin, “The Terrible Estate” by S.M. Gorodetsky).

The image of a noble estate is also embodied in the works of writers of the “intermediate type” (Keldysh), namely in the prose of B.K. Zaitsev. The writer’s various works reflect both an idyllic (“Dawn”) and a dialectical (“Far Land”) view of the Russian noble estate. The works of B.K. Zaitsev are characterized by symbolization and mythologization of the image of a noble estate, which in the writer’s artistic system is associated with the image of Eden, the Garden of Eden, the Promised Land, the original womb of the human soul. The category of culture plays a significant role in shaping the image of a noble estate in the prose of B.K. Zaitsev. The world of B.K. Zaitsev’s noble estate reflects the spiritual potential of Russian and world culture, the relationship with which is constantly palpable in the way of thinking and behavior of the writer’s noble heroes.

In our opinion, the image of a noble estate in Russian prose of the late 19th - early 20th centuries reflects the main processes characteristic of the historical and philosophical life of Russia in the era of change. A change in lifestyle, paradigms of thinking, a change in the traditional role of classes in the history of Russia, attitudes towards tradition, a change in the code of values ​​- all this is refracted in the image of a noble estate. The analysis of the concepts of the estate highlighted in the dissertation indicates the actualization for Russian society at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries, along with socio-historical issues, of the complex internal nature of man, the role of the irrational in man, the relationship between the social and metaphysical principles, the individual and the collective, and the problem of cosmism. Being largely correlated with the literary tradition of the 19th century, the image of a noble estate at the turn of the century significantly changes its nature: the specific historical content of this image is complemented by universal human content.

In Russian prose of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, the works of the idealizing and dialectical concept of the noble estate turned out to concentrate moral and aesthetic values ​​inherent in both Russian culture as a whole, and unique ones, characteristic only of the noble estate. The ideas of the House as the eternal abode of the human soul, the unity of earthly and heavenly existence, freedom and value of the individual, harmony with the universe, deep interconnection with all living things, continuity and Memory - ancestral and cultural - were correlated with the image of the noble estate. But the irreversible vector of Russia’s historical path has also been fixed, entering into a dialectical relationship with these values.

After the revolution of 1917, the moral and aesthetic foundations of life on a noble estate fell into disgrace. The fate of the noble estate in the Soviet era is well known: eviction, arrests and murders of former estate owners, destruction of estates, their use as vacation spots for the new government elite, and the like. The debunking of the noble estate and its moral and aesthetic norms became a form of class struggle, a way of establishing a new ideology. However, the understanding of the estate in Russian prose at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries had, in our opinion, a significant impact on further development both Soviet literature and, of course, Russian literature abroad.

In the literature of the first wave of Russian emigration, the idealizing concept of a noble estate received the greatest development. Far from Russia, the myth of the estate as the promised land, the original source of existence, finally takes shape (I.A. Bunin, B.K. Zaitsev, V.V. Nabokov, P.N. Krasnov). The organizing motives of this myth are the motives of childhood as childhood of being, morning as the morning of being, creativity (through creativity, connection and union with the Creator of the world), tribal continuity, paradise lost, partly characteristic of works of an idealizing concept in prose of the early 20th century. In the estate myth, the theme of creativity manifests itself more clearly than before. Creativity is connected by its nature with the primary source of being, in which it receives its beginning and vital impulse; through creativity the Creator reveals Himself to the artist (I.A. Bunin, B.K. Zaitsev). The image of a noble estate is closer in its semantics to the image of Russia. The estate and Russia are equally associated with the feeling of silence, with the images of the mother and the birch tree, and most importantly, they merge in the image of the lost and desecrated Motherland. Russia and the estate remain in the past, living only in the soul; and since the soul breathes eternity, the past acquires immortality (I.A. Bunin, B.K. Zaitsev, I.S. Shmelev).

As for Russian literature of the 20th century itself, a big mark was left in it, firstly, by the artistic model of the critical concept of the noble estate. A critical look at the values ​​of the noble estate contributed to the emergence of a new positive hero in literature, which was formed according to the logic of direct repulsion from the hero of the noble estate, in direct dispute with him. This dispute constantly reminds us of the old hero and does not allow us to forget about him. The noble hero, who has internal complexity, inconsistency, striving to resolve many existential questions (which we showed when considering the works of the idealizing and dialectical concept), is perceived as a class enemy and is emphasized by a hero of proletarian origin, devoid of mental reflection and possessing such qualities as immutability , certainty, straightforwardness (Sinyavsky, 1990, pp. 59-60). The image of the new hero poetizes blind devotion to the idea of ​​complete rejection of the past, selflessness, readiness to “lay down his life” for the working class; such a hero values ​​an idea more than a person, prefers the general to the individual (D. Furmanov, A. Serafimovich, A. Fadeev, N. Ostrovsky). Personal values ​​in the literature of socialist realism are replaced by collective values. The main criterion for evaluating a hero is not his spiritual essence, but his ideological position (F. Gladkov, V. Kochetov). There is a rejection of such important categories for the noble estate as ancestral memory and love as the main meaning of life. The entire existence of the heroes is aimed at building a bright future, comprehended in the doctrine of Soviet ideology. In the 30s, this feature finds clear expression in the development of the so-called “industrial prose”; instead of a secluded “corner” of a noble estate, the world space, united by revolution and the construction of a new life, bursts into fiction (F. Gladkov, F. Panferov, M. Shaginyan, V. Kataev, N. Ostrovsky).

However, the model of the idealizing concept of the noble estate did not go unaccepted by Russian literature of the 20th century. Moral and aesthetic criteria for assessing personality and lifestyle, marked by an idealizing concept, are especially recognizable in the works of M. Bulgakov “The White Guard”, “Days of the Turbins” and B. Pasternak “Doctor Zhivago” (the value of family, personality, a certain cultural and psychological makeup) . But, paradoxically, traces of the said concept of a noble estate can be found, in our opinion, in the literature of socialist realism. We see them in the actualization of the spiritual aspect of love, the ideals of friendship, loyalty and devotion to man, the word, the Motherland (F. Gladkov, A. Kaverin, B. Lavrenev, A. Arbuzov, A. Fadeev, A. Tvardovsky, B. Polevoy, etc. .). The values ​​of the idealizing concept of the noble estate are manifested, in addition, in the importance of childhood in a person’s life (albeit different from the childhood of noble heroes), the phenomenon of the family, which, although polemical to the ideal of the noble family and has completely different social roots (working dynasties), plays an important role. role in art systems a number of writers (V. Kochetov). The moral and aesthetic aspects, marked by the idealizing concept of a noble estate, are also recognizable in sharpening the problem of the relationship between man and nature, preserving the beauty and harmony of the world order (L. Leonov).

In Russian literature of the 20th century, there was, in addition, a third trend, genetically connected, in our opinion, with the dialectical concept of the noble estate. This tendency is characterized by a certain synthetism, which finds expression, in particular, in the prose of A. Platonov. A. Platonov, on the one hand, starts from the culture of the nobility. His hero is a man from the people, accepting the revolution, having, in comparison with the hero of the noble estate, completely different social experience, different ideals. But, on the other hand, for A. Platonov, understanding the complexity of a person’s inner world, rejection of herdism, and the search for beauty are very important. With all the aspiration of Plato's hero towards a new world, he cannot go to it without resorting to memory. It is the memories of childhood, although different from childhood in a noble estate, that become the key to understanding the world for the main character of Plato’s “Chevengur”.

In Russian literature of the 1960-1970s, there is a resurrection of the moral code of the noble estate, its values ​​and priorities - only in the lives of people of a different social status: the intelligentsia, the peasantry. Writers focus on the problem of human degradation, the loss of life values ​​and foundations; there is a desire to preserve, remember, restore, return the desecrated, forgotten, lost, lost (M. Prishvin, “lieutenant’s prose”, K. Paustovsky, V. Shukshin, S. Zalygin, Yu. Trifonov, A.G. Bitov).

In fiction, in particular, the motif of a lost home appears (Yu. Trifonov), the problem of preserving personality, individuality in the world of collectivism and socialist transformations is emphasized (V. Tendryakov). Often the reason for the loss of one’s own “I” is associated in the literature of the 1960-1970s with the loss of memory, without the preservation of which, from the point of view of writers, there can be no real, real life (Yu. Trifonov).

During this period, the view of such concepts as nobility and aristocracy changed in Russian literature. Nobility is conceptualized by writers and poets not as a social status, but as spirituality and intelligence; It is in the sphere of the spiritual (love, friendship) that the priorities of the poets of the 60s lie (B. Okudzhava, B. Akhmadulina, N. Matveeva, Y. Moritz). The problem associated with the theme of the intelligentsia in fiction is moral choice person, preservation of memory, relationships between fathers and children, fidelity, purity of friendship and love (Yu. Trifonov, A. Bitov, D. Granin, B. Okudzhava, B. Akhmadulina).

In Russian prose of the 1970-1990s, the problems of the deformation of society, disrespect for man, the cruelty of the modern world and the loneliness of man in it are emphasized; writers oppose the moral and spiritual impoverishment of the individual, advocate for the revival of its inner wealth, for the restoration of a system of moral values ​​that are directly related, in our opinion, to the moral and aesthetic code of the noble estate (L. Petrushevskaya, V. Tokareva, T. Tolstaya, Yu.Dombrovsky, V.Makanin).

In the literature of the 1990-2000s, the motif of childhood as a paradise, legendary existence, characteristic of the works of the dialectical concept of the noble estate, reappears - irretrievably, however, lost (V. Lorchenkov).

After the revolution, the departure from Russian literature and culture of the image of the noble estate as the main symbol of the Promised Land led to the need to form a replacement for it. On the one hand, as an image of paradise, a certain foggy future was seen in the literature of the Soviet period, towards which everyone was directed goodies"socialist realism". On the other hand, in the 1970s, the functions of the promised land were assumed by the image of the village, which is reflected in “village prose” (V. Rasputin, V. Astafiev, V. Belov, F. Abramov).

The images of the noble estate and the village are brought together by the priority of memory in the lives of the heroes, their unity with nature, and attitude to time. In the works of the idealizing concept, we noted such a feature of the estate time as regularity, unhurriedness, and cyclicality, which, according to the writers, was a way of confronting the rapidly changing world and preserving one’s individuality and trace in it. A similar attitude to time is also characteristic of the heroes of “village prose”, in which a measured, calm, thoughtful village existence, which allows one to preserve one’s soul, is contrasted with the accelerated, technically subordinated life of the city, where a person in a hurry has no time to think about his spiritual basis.

However, there are significant differences between the images of a noble estate and a village. If, as we noted in the first chapter, the space of a noble estate in Russian prose at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries is characterized by simultaneous introversion and extroversion, a focus on oneself and at the same time a deep relationship with the entire universe, which makes the estate a receptacle not only of the family, but also general cultural memory, then the idyllic space of the village turns out to be self-sufficient, separated from the surrounding world, essentially not connected with it (“Farewell to Matera” by V. Rasputin).

The difference between the image of a village and a noble estate indicates that an equivalent replacement in Russian literature and culture of one symbol of the Promised Land by another did not happen. According to V.G. Shchukin, the functions of a noble estate in Russian fiction of the 20th century are finally taken over by the dacha (Schukin, 1997, p. 212). However, we beg to differ with this opinion. In our opinion, between the noble estate and the dacha in the fiction of both the 19th and 20th centuries there were and still are many differences, the main one of which is again the connection between the image of the estate, in contrast to the dacha, with tribal and cultural memory, which is what makes the human personality protected from all the vicissitudes and cataclysms of world history.

Today, the life of a noble estate is moving further and further away from us, and with it the moral and aesthetic values ​​that it kept within itself are leaving and being forgotten. However, these values ​​are necessary for the further full-fledged existence of each of us individually, and for the revival and development of all Russian culture. The problem of loss of memory, one’s own “I”, one’s roots and foundations in life has not weakened in recent decades, but has become even more acute and relevant. And, apparently, in order to somehow solve the problems facing us, we need to turn our face to history, remember, peer into it, see its true undistorted image and only move on in deep connection with it, because, according to M.Ya. Gefter, “it is still a misconception that the future is always ahead. In fact, people, nations, civilizations have long been moving forward with their backs, but with their faces towards the fact that there is no return and no oblivion. And now, especially now, the future has memory in the demiurges” (Gefter, 1996, p. 80).

And the Russian estate in the literature of the late 19th - early 20th centuries reminds us of this.

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Yakusheva Elizaveta

The era of urbanization is passing - people are tired of living among dust, asphalt and exhaust fumes. People want to break free, they want the real, pure and natural. And thanks to the high level of progress, life in the lap of nature and modern level comfort - now the concepts are quite compatible. Moving outside the city, we remember how our ancestors lived and apply their experience in our new life.

The history of the Russian estate goes back almost six centuries. Back in the period ancient Rus' in any village there was a house of the “owner” that stood out among the others - the prototype of the local estate. The word “estate” comes from the Russian verb “to sit down,” and, as a phenomenon, the estate took root on Russian soil because, according to researchers, it invariably remained for the owner a corner of the world, mastered and arranged for himself.

A family estate is not easy country house and the land adjacent to it, but also a spiritual territory on which the most diverse events in the life of your family are collected and captured. Everyday worries, joyful holidays, family celebrations, time for work and rest - all this has been preserved and passed through the centuries, reminding you of the history of the family. The estate, in the original sense of the word, is small homeland a person where several generations of his ancestors lived. Nowadays, this concept is almost lost. We live in city apartments, being second or third generation city dwellers, we go out of town to a private plot, which most often can hardly be called a family estate. If Europeans can proudly tell you about the history of their family, take you through the halls of the family estate where ceremonial receptions were held, then we can tell you more about the family tree of a pet than about our own. This is how it happened in our country. But more and more often modern people come to understand what the history of their kind means to them. The construction of a “family nest” is the first step towards restoring the former role of the family estate, preserving and respecting the history of one’s ancestors.

Today, a “family nest” can be called a fairly large plot of land with various outbuildings, a master’s house, and a place to relax. Of course, life in the modern “family nest” is different from what was available to our ancestors. Modern country villages are built with a well-thought-out infrastructure, their inhabitants have access to all the benefits of civilization, but one thing remains unchanged - life in harmony with nature and with oneself. Boundless open spaces, green or snow-covered fields, natural reservoirs, horseback riding and boating never cease to be in demand.

As soon as you say the phrase “Russian estate”, an established image appears before your eyes: a wrought-iron lattice fence, a collapsed stone entrance arch, overgrown alleys, empty park pavilions and gazebos, a manor house in which, it seems, the steps and whispers of the former inhabitants can still be heard.

The Russian estate is a treasure of Russian culture. Today, in the 21st century, we can say that the Russian estate is being revived: many families choose interior design for a country house or city apartment in the traditions that were formed during the times of Tsarist Russia.

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Municipal educational institution

Secondary school No. 89. Volgograd

City competition of educational

research work

High school students “Me and the Earth”

named after V.I.Vernadsky

section of the history of the Fatherland

The history of the Russian estate and the lifestyle of its inhabitants.

Completed:

student of class 9A

Yakusheva Elizaveta

History teacher:

Gnatkovskaya Lyudmila Viktorovna

Volgograd, 2014

1.Introduction……………………………………………………………..3-6

2. The history of the Russian estate and the way of life of its inhabitants………..7-21

3. Conclusion………………………………………………………...22-24

4. References………………………………………………………......25-26

1.Introduction

The era of urbanization is passing - people are tired of living among dust, asphalt and exhaust fumes. People want to break free, they want the real, pure and natural. And thanks to the high level of progress, life in the lap of nature and the modern level of comfort are now completely compatible concepts. Moving outside the city, we remember how our ancestors lived and apply their experience in our new life.

The history of the Russian estate goes back almost six centuries. Even in the period of ancient Rus', in any village there was a house of the “owner” that stood out among others - the prototype of the local estate. The word “estate” comes from the Russian verb “to sit down,” and, as a phenomenon, the estate took root on Russian soil because, according to researchers, it invariably remained for the owner a corner of the world, mastered and arranged for himself.

In other words, the estate became the place where a person decided to settle, make a home, and put down roots. A family estate is not just a country house and the land adjacent to it, but also a spiritual territory on which a variety of events in the life of your family are collected and captured. Everyday worries, joyful holidays, family celebrations, time for work and rest - all this has been preserved and passed through the centuries, reminding you of the history of the family. An estate, in the original sense of the word, is a person’s small homeland, where several generations of his ancestors lived. Nowadays, this concept is almost lost. We live in city apartments, being second or third generation city dwellers, we go out of town to a private plot, which most often can hardly be called a family estate. If Europeans can proudly tell you about the history of their family, take you through the halls of the family estate where ceremonial receptions were held, then we can tell you more about the family tree of a pet than about our own. This is how it happened in our country. But more and more often, modern people are coming to understand what the history of their kind means to them. The construction of a “family nest” is the first step towards restoring the former role of the family estate, preserving and respecting the history of one’s ancestors.

Today, a “family nest” can be called a fairly large plot of land with various outbuildings, a master’s house, and a place to relax. Of course, life in the modern “family nest” is different from what was available to our ancestors. Modern country villages are built with a well-thought-out infrastructure, their inhabitants have access to all the benefits of civilization, but one thing remains unchanged - life in harmony with nature and with oneself. Boundless open spaces, green or snow-covered fields, natural reservoirs, horseback riding and boating never cease to be in demand.

As soon as you say the phrase “Russian estate”, an established image appears before your eyes: a wrought-iron lattice fence, a collapsed stone entrance arch, overgrown alleys, empty park pavilions and gazebos, a manor house in which, it seems, the steps and whispers of the former inhabitants can still be heard.

The Russian estate is a treasure of Russian culture. Today, in the 21st century, we can say that the Russian estate is being revived: many families choose interior design for a country house or city apartment in the traditions that were formed during the times of Tsarist Russia.

Relevance of the research topic.The choice of topic is determined by the significance of the estate in Russian culture. For many centuries, the estate was the main component of Russian sociocultural reality. The peculiar historical prerequisites for the emergence and development of the Russian estate made it a pronounced national phenomenon. The study of the estate from a cultural perspective is now the most relevant, since it is caused by the growing processes of the formation of national self-awareness in connection with the changing idea of ​​the place and role of Russia in universal cultural development.

The new principles of our country’s presence in the world community require respect not only for foreign national cultures, but also, first of all, for our own. The currently increasing growth of Russian national self-awareness determines the need to restore historical and cultural memory. The traditions of national culture are uninterrupted, as they are the fruit of the joint efforts of many generations. Modernity is unthinkable without a “century-old building of culture”, without awareness of previous moral, spiritual, intellectual experience, without respect for the fund of enduring values ​​accumulated by our people.

The Russian estate is a phenomenon that to a large extent determined the characteristics of Russian culture, its historical life and spiritual content. The estate is interpreted as a kind of sign of Russia, a symbol of national culture. Its presence in the visual arts, literature, and music remains constant.

Object of studyis a Russian estate and its inhabitants.

Target The work is to study the Russian estate, consider its role and place in national culture, to see the lifestyle of the inhabitants of the Russian estate.

Tasks:

Highlight the historical stages of the life of the estate;

Explore the lifestyle of the estate's inhabitants

Main working hypothesis The research can be formulated as follows: consideration of the Russian estate as a sociocultural phenomenon in its historical development will make it possible to clarify the understanding national characteristics Russian culture in general, to enrich the modern understanding of the uniqueness of its traditions and their role in the formation of national identity today.

Scientific novelty of the presented research is that the Russian estate is considered in the methodology of a comprehensive cultural analysis. This approach makes it possible to reveal the features of this phenomenon as a unique historical and cultural complex, one of the most significant phenomena of Russian culture. The study also proposes classification principles and grounds for the typology of the Russian estate in the political-economic, socio-psychological, spiritual, artistic and aesthetic life of Russia.

Theoretical significanceThe research lies in the novelty and reliability of the results obtained, which represent a significant contribution to research on this issue.

Practical significanceThe work lies in the relevance of developing history lessons dedicated to the culture of Russia, where the problems of the Russian estate should occupy a significant place. The research material can also be used in special courses and elective classes for schoolchildren.

2. History of the Russian estate and the lifestyle of its inhabitants

An estate in Russian architecture is a separate settlement, a complex of residential, utility, park and other buildings, as well as, as a rule, an estate park, which form a single whole. The term “estate” refers to the possessions of Russian nobles and wealthy representatives of other classes, dating back to the 17th - early 20th centuries.

The first mention of the estate in documents dates back to 1536. In a separate book of June 1536, the division of the patrimony of the Obolensky princes between relatives in the Bezhetsk district was recorded. From the text it turns out that there was a manor near the village of Dgino.

The following main categories are distinguished, which have a number of features that influence the appearance of Russian estates:

  • boyar estates of the 17th century;
  • landowners' estates of the 18th-19th centuries;
  • city ​​estates of the 18th-19th centuries;
  • peasant estates.

A classic manorial estate usually included a manor house, several outbuildings, a stable, a greenhouse, buildings for servants, etc. The park adjacent to the estate was most often of a landscape nature; ponds were often built, alleys were laid out, gazebos, grottoes, etc. were built. A church was often built in large estates.

Urban noble estates, characteristic of Moscow, to a lesser extent for St. Petersburg, and provincial cities, as a rule, included a manor house, “services” (stables, barns, servants’ quarters), and a small garden.

Many Russian estates were built according to original designs by famous architects, while at the same time a considerable part were built according to “standard” designs. Estates that belonged to famous collectors often housed significant cultural assets and collections of works of fine and decorative art.

A number of estates that belonged to famous patrons of the arts became known as important centers of cultural life (for example, Abramtsevo, Talashkino). Other estates became famous due to famous owners (Tarkhany, Boldino).

After the October Revolution of 1917, almost all Russian noble estates were abandoned by their owners, most of them were plundered and further abandoned. In a number outstanding estates During the years of Soviet power, museums were created (Arkhangelskoye, Kuskovo, Ostankino - in the Moscow region and Moscow), including memorial ones (Yasnaya Polyana in the Tula region, Karabikha near Yaroslavl, etc.).

According to the national fund “Revival of the Russian Estate”, in Russia in 2007 there were about 7 thousand estates that are monuments of history and architecture, and about two thirds of them are in a ruined state.

The estate was born from the inherent desire of man to arrange the world around him, to bring it closer to a speculative ideal. For a nobleman, the estate always represented a “shelter of peace, work and inspiration,” in which one could hide from everyday hardships. The estate immersed people in the world of simple human joys, in the cycle of household chores and entertainment related to construction, gardening, theater, hunting and receiving guests. In the lap of nature, in peace and quiet, many values ​​acquired their true meaning. Under the shadow of the muses, poems were written, romances were composed, and paintings were created. The present day coexisted in the estate with the past, the memory of which lived in the portraits of the family galleries, in the monuments of the park and the “father’s coffins” of the tombs.

Noble estate of the 18th century. was formed and evolved in line with the contemporary advanced ideological, aesthetic and artistic trends of domestic and European culture, and accumulated the spiritual, artistic and material culture of modern society.

Landlord estates throughout the 18th century. served as a place for the life of their inhabitants, here they were born, raised, for most of them their entire lives passed here, the lives of more than one generation. Rich landowners left their “family nests” only for the winter or during service and study. For large landowners-aristocrats, estates were official ceremonial residences, an administrative and economic center with its own bureaucratic apparatus, a huge “staff” of courtyard people headed by a clerk, with an office through which “decrees” and instructions were sent. The estates occupied large territories due to the lands assigned to them, forests, fields, peasant villages. In his estate, the owner acted as a monarch, and his subjects were his serfs. Their richly decorated manor houses resembled palaces. The arrival of the landowner was greeted with the ringing of bells and bread and salt.

One of the most significant consequences of Peter's reforms was a change in morals and customs. But the seeds of European culture on Russian soil, which the reformer Tsar so indomitably planted, bore strange and not always successful shoots. Unaccustomed to their traditional way of life, they assimilated what was foreign in a superficial, consumerist way. From the achievements of Western culture they borrowed, first of all, what made life pleasant and comfortable

Noble estate of the 18th century. was formed and evolved in line with the contemporary advanced ideological, aesthetic and artistic trends of domestic and European culture, and accumulated the spiritual, artistic and material culture of modern society. The closest prototypes for a large aristocratic estate were the royal country residences near St. Petersburg. And they, in turn, served as role models for provincial estates. The culture of the noble estate created excellent examples of architectural and landscape ensembles, fine arts, music and theater.

When decorating the estate ensemble of the last third of the 18th century. A special place was given to the surrounding landscape, the advantages and expressiveness of the natural landscape, terrain, green areas, and reservoirs were emphasized. The latter were given the configuration of natural lakes. The deficiencies of the territory were compensated for by artificial methods, achieving the plausibility of the authenticity of nature, untouched by man.

From the 1760s, after the abolition of compulsory noble service, the rural estate began to flourish. Changes in the appearance of the estate were not immediately noticeable. The usual, traditional way of life was not violated by all owners. The share of manor settlements by county by the 1780s. decreased. The proportion of estates without manor houses has also increased. Perhaps this was due to the movement of some of the nobles to the cities, to new county institutions. As before, manor houses were mainly wooden. As in the first half of the century, the bulk of the nobles in the counties owned one estate. It is significant that the number of estates without peasant households has sharply decreased. Among wealthy landowners, estate farming in such industries as livestock farming, poultry farming, gardening, and fish farming still occupied a strong position. Greenhouses became a characteristic feature of many estates. Judging by the developed estate economy, the number of courtyard people did not decrease, and among them the number of those who mastered rare craft specialties (carpenters, carvers, mechanics, etc.) that were necessary for the improvement of manor houses increased.

Back in the 40s of the 18th century, during the reign of Empress Anna Ioannovna, the princely house in Arkhangelskoye consisted of only three rooms, actually separate log buildings, connected by an entryway. The interiors of this dwelling were also unpretentious: in the red corner there are icons with an unquenchable lamp, along the walls of the shop, a tiled stove, an oak table, four leather chairs, a spruce bed “in variegated and embossed pillowcases.” In the yard, enclosed by a low lattice fence, there was a bathhouse, outbuildings - glaciers, a barn, and a cookhouse. The main attraction of the estate was the stone church of the Archangel Michael.

The majestic palaces of nobles were usually built on elevated places, on the picturesque banks of rivers or lakes, dominating the area and helping their owners to enter into the image of a sovereign ruler. This fun was extremely common among the nobility. Having your own court, your own ladies-in-waiting, chamberlains and ladies of state, court marshals and masters of horse seemed prestigious, flattered your vanity, and intoxicated you with the feeling of unlimited power.

On special days, balls were held. In the estate of the nobleman Prince Golitsyn, for example, according to an eyewitness description, it happened like this: “Invitees gathered in a brightly lit hall, and when all the guests were assembled, the prince’s own orchestra played a solemn march, and to the sounds of it the prince went out into the hall, leaning on the shoulder of his chamberlain. The ball opened with a polonaise, and the owner walked with his lady of state, who first kissed his hand ... "

Rich and noble landowners, or those who wanted others to think of them this way, tried to build a vast stone house, surrounding it with many stone outbuildings, outbuildings, colonnades, greenhouses and hothouses. The house was surrounded by a garden with ponds and a park, regular or landscape, depending on the tastes of the owner. Among the trees were white statues in the ancient style, and often monuments. The world of the estate was created very carefully and in detail. In a good estate, nothing should be thought out. Everything is significant, everything is an allegory, everything is “read” by those initiated into the estate sacrament. The yellow color of the manor house showed the wealth of the owner. The roof was supported by white (symbol of light) columns. The gray color of the outbuildings signifies distance from active life. And red in unplastered outbuildings is, on the contrary, the color of life and activity. And all this was drowned in the greenery of gardens and parks - a symbol of hope. Swamps, cemeteries, ravines, hills - everything was slightly tweaked, corrected and called Nezvanki. Becoming significant in estate symbolism. Naturally, this ideal world was necessarily, although often purely symbolically, fenced off from the surrounding world with walls, bars, towers, artificial ditches - ravines and ponds.

Every tree, every plant means something in the overall harmony. White birch trunks, reminiscent of white column trunks, serve as a sustainable image of the homeland. The linden trees in the driveways during the spring flowering hinted at the heavenly ether with their fragrance. Acacia was planted as a symbol of the immortality of the soul. For the oak tree, which was perceived as strength, eternity, and virtue, special clearings were created. Ivy, as a sign of immortality, entwined the trees in the park. And the reeds near the water symbolized solitude. Even the grass was seen as mortal flesh, withering and resurrecting. It is characteristic that aspen, as a “cursed tree,” is practically never found in noble estates.

The size of the manor house and the luxury that surrounded it depended on the condition of the landowner, and it could be formed in different ways. One of the sources of means for the existence of a “noble” person was service, or rather, abuse of it, or, simply put, theft. Almost everyone was guilty of this, only on a different scale, from the district solicitor to the governor general and minister.

The more comfortable the house was, or the more its owner wanted to have the reputation of a good owner, the more strictly the internal life of the little world that included the population of the master's estate was regulated. Detailed instructions defined the duties of each servant and a list of punishments for failure to perform them or performing them improperly. In one of these instructions, compiled by the Moscow master Lunin, we read that the orderly waiter “without reminding, he should often send the boys to remove the candles cleanly and neatly; it will be exacted if the candle is not placed directly in the shandal, or it is wobbly...” After dinner, the orderly waiter and footman had to extinguish the candles and take them to the buffet, where all the cinders were carefully sorted out, from which the smallest were then given for pouring into new candles, and Large cinders were ordered to be consumed in the back chambers.

Life in the estate was clearly divided into formal and everyday life. The intellectual and economic center of the daily life of the estate was the men's office. However, it was almost always furnished very modestly. “The office, placed next to the buffet (pantry room), was inferior to it in size and, despite its seclusion, seemed still too spacious for the owner’s scientific studies and the storage of his books,” wrote F. F. Vigel. Throughout the entire 18th century, when intellectual and moral work became the duty of every nobleman, the owner’s office belonged to almost the most unostentatious rooms of the estate. Everything here was designed for solitary work. The office was furnished accordingly. The “Golan” or “English” cabinet was considered fashionable. Almost all of its furnishings consisted of ascetic oak furniture, with very discreet upholstery, and a modest table clock. The desks didn't complain. Preference was given to secretaries, desks, and bureaus.

The master's office, in contrast to the mistress's chambers, was almost unadorned and was decorated very modestly. Only an exquisite decanter and a glass for the “morning consumption” of cherry or anise were considered indispensable (it was believed that this would help prevent “angina pectoris” and “stroke” - the most fashionable diseases of the 18th - early 19th centuries) and a smoking pipe. Smoking at the turn of the century became a whole symbolic ritual. No one ever smoked in the living room or in the hall, even without guests in their family, so that, God forbid, somehow this smell would not remain and so that the furniture would not stink. Smoking began to spread noticeably after 1812.

It was here, in the office of the owner of the estate, that the managers reported, letters and orders were written, quitrents were calculated, neighbors were simply received, and the projects of the estate architects were discussed.

Since the men's office is intended for work, books played a major role in its interior. Some books were necessary for successful farming. A fashion for reading was formed in quiet manor offices. If the men's office was the private center of the estate, then the living room or hall served as its ceremonial face. This division into home and guest, everyday and festive was characteristic of the entire noble era. One of the consequences of this division of the entire life of the nobility was the differentiation of estate interiors into “state apartments” and “rooms for the family.” In rich estates, the living room and hall served different purposes, but in most houses they were perfectly combined.

Contemporaries, of course, perceived the hall or living room as a formal room, and therefore officially a cold apartment. The hall, large, empty and cold, has two or three windows onto the street and four into the courtyard, with rows of chairs along the walls, with lamps on high legs and candelabra in the corners, with a large piano against the wall; dances, formal dinners, and a place where cards were played were her destination. Then there is a living room, also with three windows, with the same sofa and a round table in the back and a large mirror above the sofa. On the sides of the sofa there are armchairs, chaise longue tables, and between the windows there are tables with narrow mirrors covering the entire wall. The ceiling of the hall was certainly decorated with a lush lampshade, and the floor with parquet inserts with a special pattern. The carved gilded wood of the walls and furniture added solemnity to the front hall. The cold white, blue, greenish tones of the entire living room were only slightly supported by gold and ocher. The center of the hall was almost always a large ceremonial portrait of the currently reigning person in an indispensable gilded frame. It was placed deliberately symmetrically along the main axis of the living room and was given the same honors as the sovereigns themselves. At the beginning of the 19th century, living rooms became warmer. Now they are already colored pinkish or ocher warm colors. Lush gilded furniture is replaced by more austere mahogany. Handicrafts move from the ladies' rooms here. And in the previously cold fireplaces, a fire is lit every evening, fenced off from the hall by embroidered fireplace screens.

And the purpose of living rooms is changing. Now family and quiet holidays are held here. Often household members gather for family reading. In the evenings the whole family sat in a circle, someone read, others listened: especially ladies and girls.

At the very end of the 18th century, a women's office appeared in the manor house. This was required by the sentimental age, with its images of a gentle wife and a businesslike housewife. Now, having received an education, the woman herself shaped the spiritual image of not only her children, but also the courtyard people entrusted to her care. The day of a noblewoman, especially in a rural estate, was filled to capacity with worries. Her morning began in a secluded office, where they went to get orders with a report, money, and the day's menu.

However, as the day progresses, the functions of the women's office change. The morning is always busy. And during the day, and especially in the evening, the hostess’s office turns into a kind of salon. The very concept of a salon, where performers and audience exchange each other, where conversations are held about everything and nothing, where celebrities are invited, was formed at the end of the 18th century.

In her manor office, the hostess received her closest relatives, friends, and neighbors. Here she read, drew, and did handicrafts. Here she conducted extensive correspondence. That’s why the women’s office has always been distinguished by its special comfort and warmth. The walls were painted in light colors and covered with wallpaper. Floral decor and the same floral painting covered the ceiling. The floor was no longer made of brightly patterned parquet, but was covered with a colored carpet. The warmth of the conversation in the women's office was complemented by the warmth of the fireplace. The stoves and fireplaces here were richly decorated with faience tiles with reliefs on themes of ancient mythology.

But the main role in the women's office was undoubtedly played by artistic furniture. The spaces between the windows were occupied by large mirrors resting on elegant tables. They reflected watercolor and embroidery portraits. The furniture itself was now made from Karelian birch. Small round tables and bobby tables, armchairs and bureaus allowed the owner of the office to create the necessary comfort herself. At the same time, they tried to divide the single space of the office into several cozy corners, each of which had its own purpose.

The dining room occupied a particularly honorable place among the state rooms of the estate. At the same time, there is a dining room and the necessary everyday space. It was here that the family felt united. After the dining room becomes on a par with the most ceremonial rooms of the noble estate, it begins to be decorated in a special way. The walls of this bright room are usually not decorated with tapestries or fashionable silk fabrics - they absorb odors. But paintings and oil paintings were widely used paintings. In addition to the still lifes that were natural in the dining room, paintings on historical themes or family portraits were often placed here, which further emphasized the splendor of the room. In estates where several generations have passed, dining rooms often became places for storing family heirlooms. Sometimes entire collections were housed in the same place.

But they tried to put as little furniture in the dining rooms as possible - only what was necessary. The chairs were, as a rule, very simple, since the main requirement for them was comfort - lunches sometimes lasted for a very long time. The tables could not stand at all all the time. They were often made retractable and taken out only during lunch, depending on the number of guests. However, in the middle of the 19th century, a huge table already occupied almost the entire space of the dining room.

Buffets - slides on which various objects made of porcelain and glass were displayed - were obligatory in the dining rooms of the 18th century. Small console tables attached to the wall served the same purpose. With the accumulation of family collections, such sideboards and tables were replaced by large glass cabinets in which collectibles were located.

Porcelain had a special place in Russian dining rooms of the 18th - 19th centuries. Not a single estate could be imagined without him. It performed not so much a domestic as a representative function - it spoke of the wealth and taste of the owner. Therefore, good porcelain was specially mined and collected. Specially made-to-order porcelain sets were rare even in very rich houses, and therefore the entire set of dishes was assembled literally from individual items. And only towards the end of the 18th century, porcelain sets took a firm place on the dining tables of the Russian nobility.

Metal utensils were practically not used in estates; they were made of gold or silver. At the same time, if gold dishes told guests about the wealth of the owner, then porcelain - about refined tastes. In poorer houses, pewter and majolica played the same representative role.

In the 18th century, several bedrooms appeared in the estates. The front bedrooms and living rooms were never used. These were purely executive rooms. During the day they rested in the “everyday bedchambers.” At night they slept in personal bedrooms, which were located in the personal chambers of the owner, mistress and their children.

Here, in the bedroom, the day of the owners of the estate began and ended. According to Orthodox tradition, going to bed was always preceded by evening prayer. In the bedroom there were icons especially revered in the family. Most often these were icons with the image of the Mother of God. The piety of the owners was expressed in the abundant decoration of the icons. They ordered expensive silver and gold frames, decorated with chasing, engraving, and stones. They preferred to personally decorate especially expensive icons with embroidered beads or freshwater pearls. Often among the serf estate masters there were their own icon painters. And the landowner, as a rule, maintained the local church and all its ministers at his own expense.

Numerous draperies made of expensive fabrics served as a natural decoration for the manor bedrooms. The same fabrics were used to make lush curtains for windows and bed canopies, decorated with bouquets of feathers (“feather bouquets”). They tried to upholster the upholstered seating furniture here with the same fabric, thus creating a set.

And yet, the life and homes of the majority of nobles remained forcedly modest and unpretentious. Unlike the noble estate, which grew up on an elevated bank and dominated the area, the house of a poor landowner huddled in a ravine to protect it from the winds and cold. The walls were dilapidated, the window frames were in cracks, the windows were in cracks. Many estates maintained such a miserable appearance for almost a century and a half, without changing during the entire period from the second quarter of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century. The reason was, of course, poverty, which the owners could not overcome even by mercilessly exploiting the labor of serfs.

An example of an estate of that time is the estate of the famous memoirist Andrei Bolotov in the 50s of the 18th century. A one-story house without a foundation was sunk into the ground almost up to the tiniest windows. Of the three rooms, the largest, the hall, was unheated and therefore almost uninhabited. The furniture in it included benches along the walls and a table covered with a carpet. Other rooms were living rooms. The huge stoves were heated so hot in winter that with a lack of fresh air (there were no vents and no windows were opened), the inhabitants fainted. They recovered from fainting and drowned again, following the rule that “the heat does not break the bones.” The right corner is filled with icons, the furniture includes chairs and a bed. The second room was quite small in size and served simultaneously as a children’s room, a servant’s room, and a maid’s room, depending on the need and circumstances.

Almost a hundred years have passed, and this is how an ordinary noble estate of the mid-19th century appears in the descriptions of contemporaries: the landowner’s house is divided by simple partitions into several small rooms, and in such four or five “cells”, as a rule, a large family lives, including only a few children, but also all sorts of dependents and certainly distant poor relatives, among whom were the owner’s unmarried sisters or elderly aunts, and in addition - governesses, nannies, maids and nurses.

In a “middle-class” estate there were one hundred, two hundred or more peasant households, in which lived from several hundred to 1–2 thousand serfs. The owner's house was located a short distance from the village, sometimes next to the church. It was spacious, but most often made of wood, two-story and certainly with a “hall” - for receiving guests and dancing. The courtyard, as in the old days, was occupied by outbuildings: a kitchen, people's huts, barns, a carriage house, and a stable. On some estates they built new home without demolishing the old one. It was intended for the family of the eldest son or for the owner’s wife, who for some reason did not want to live under the same roof with her husband.

The new house, unlike the old one, in which the spirit of the past had been preserved for decades, was more readily decorated with elegant furniture, mirrors, and paintings. Family portraits occupied an important place among the paintings in the noble estate.

Behind everyone, in the very last and farthest ranks of the Russian nobility, was its largest part - the small estates. The prevailing ideas in society also did not allow them to lag behind their wealthier brothers. The splitting of estates between heirs led to the emergence of an increasing number of small estates. From the beginning of the 19th century, after the transfer of state peasants into the ownership of the nobility stopped under Alexander I, the fragmentation of estates became especially noticeable.

Over time, the reduction reached an extreme degree, and then the landowner’s house could no longer be distinguished from a peasant’s dwelling, and the landowner himself could no longer be distinguished from his serf. However, already at the beginning of the 19th century there turned out to be a considerable number of placeless and “soulless” nobles who did not have a single peasant or servant at all and independently cultivated their plots of land. There were especially many small landowners in the Ryazan province. There they even received the special nickname “noblemen.” Such “noblewomen” sometimes inhabited entire villages, their houses were mixed with peasant huts, and the size of their land plots was so small that they could not feed the “noble” family itself, often very numerous. There was no time for hospitality or visiting guests. The usual home of small-scale nobles was a tiny, dilapidated building of two rooms, separated by a vestibule, with an attached kitchen. But there were two halves in the house - to the right of the entrance was the “master’s”, to the left was the human one, and thus, even here, amid poverty and squalor, the class spirit was preserved, separating masters and slaves.

Each of these halves, in turn, was separated by partitions. In the people's room, along the walls there were sleeping mats, spinning wheels, and hand millstones. From furniture - a rough table, benches or several chairs, chests, buckets and other things that are necessary in the household. Baskets with eggs were usually kept under the benches, and dogs, poultry, calves, cats and other living creatures wandered or ran around the room.

The master's half was cleaner, tidier, furnished with furniture, although old and fairly shabby, but “remembering” better times. Otherwise, the room differed little from a peasant dwelling. But one of the characteristic features of small-scale life was the same, inherent in the richer nobles, the large number of all kinds of hangers-on and parasites who huddled together with the owners in their extremely modest house. In circumstances of need that merged with real poverty, relatives lived in cramped quarters and often from hand to mouth, who had absolutely no one to go to for help and nowhere to look for a piece of bread except in this wretched “family nest.” Here one could also meet “unmarried nieces, the elderly sister of the owner or mistress, or an uncle - a retired cornet who squandered his fortune.”

In such a close and poor cohabitation, quarrels and endless mutual reproaches arose. The owners found fault with the parasites, who, without remaining in debt, recalled the long-standing benefits shown by their fathers to the current breadwinners. They scolded rudely and “in the most vulgar way,” made peace and quarreled again, and diversified the truce hours with gossip or playing cards.

Culture of a noble estate of the 18th century. occupies an important place in the history of Russian culture of this period, remaining for us to this day " a fairy tale" As a result of studying estates, we become richer: “a new zone of Russian culture has opened, interesting and important not only for the perfection of its material creations, but also for its thoughts, its poetry and philosophy, its beliefs and tastes.”

3.Conclusion

As the study has shown, the Russian estate has been one of the main components of Russian culture for many centuries. The estate reflected not only the spiritual and aesthetic ideals of its time, but also the individual character traits of the owner, combining the general and the special. At the same time, the estates were both the guardians of patriarchal traditions and the place for the implementation of the most daring undertakings.

Each type of Russian estate was a system, a dynamic integrity that reflected its own attitude to the world and understanding of the connection with it and the role of man in it. Determining the place of the Russian estate in the sociocultural context from a historical and typological perspective is necessary to understand the genesis of Russian culture in general and regional culture in particular.

The following general conclusions can be drawn:

1. The estate is an organic and holistic phenomenon of Russian culture, the appearance of which is caused by essential sociocultural needs and is conditioned by all the previous historical and cultural development of the country.

One of the main features that determined the “longevity” of the estate is its rootedness in Russian culture.

2. The basis of estate construction was the affirmation of the freedom of the landowner-nobleman, the theory of “life order”. The estate acted as a unique way of expressing the creative and aesthetic energy of the Russian nobility. Each individual estate built its own ideal model of reality. Monologue was one of the most important characteristics of the Russian estate, which determined its originality and uniqueness.

The presence of boundaries with the external environment was a necessary condition for the preservation of the artificially created idyllic “manor paradise.” At the same time, the estate itself was in a complex and contradictory relationship with the capitals, with the district town, with neighboring estates, and with the peasant world. Oriented toward metropolitan culture, the estate has always been in opposition to statehood, existing at the same time as a phenomenon of provincial culture.

The estate became the main component of the landscape, often changing the natural environment and occupying the most aesthetically advantageous place.

The national originality of Russian estate gardens and parks lay in their greater openness, in the organic combination of intimacy and spatial connection with the environment. The national landscape still preserves traces of the estate transformation of nature.

The Russian estate has always been and was considered by its inhabitants as a “family nest” of the Russian nobility. Its atmosphere was supported by portrait galleries illustrating the “family tree”; talking about the merits of their ancestors; manor churches, which usually served as family tombs.

The main principle of estate life - the understanding of life as creativity - found different forms of expression. The active character of the owner of the estate was a means of achieving harmonization of both his personality and his entire life on the estate. In this regard, to useful activity economic improvements and intellectual pursuits, artistic amateurism and various estate amusements were treated equally.

3. In the estate there were inextricably linked noble and peasant cultures, as well as the inherently synthetic church culture.

Estate art combined plastic and spectacular types; professional, amateur and folk forms. The estate theater was the most democratic in both the composition of performers and the choice of repertoire.

Art galleries in estates served as one of the forms of conscious introduction of elements of Western European artistic life into Russian culture. At the same time, the estate was both a collection of artistic treasures and a center of artistic creativity.

In the second half of the 19th century, the Russian estate turned from a subject of artistic activity into its object. The expression of nostalgic longing for estate life was, first of all, literature and painting.

The estate is constantly present in the national cultural and artistic memory, being one of the most important culture-forming factors.

The estate was an organic and holistic phenomenon of Russian culture, which reflected the living way of life in Russia. Now the estate occupies an important place in the national cultural heritage. The study of this sociocultural phenomenon in the historical stages of its development allows us to penetrate deeper into the spiritual foundations and originality of national culture, contributing to the acquisition of national identity, dignity and historical and cultural memory, as well as to clarify and concretize the idea of ​​the realities of national culture. Being a fact of national culture, the Russian estate belongs to the fund of universal human values.

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Landscape design is becoming increasingly popular not only among owners of mansions, but also among amateur gardeners. It can be quite difficult to make your several hundred square meters cozy, elegant, and at the same time practical. The most difficult task sometimes becomes to decide on site design ideas. Inspiration for garden landscaping can be found in Russian estates of the 19th century.

Russian estates of the 19th century as a source of inspiration

The 19th century in Russia is associated with light luxury; pictures of leisurely gentlemen strolling in the shade of green park alleys appear before our eyes. Often, such parks were adjacent to the territory of noble estates. The passion for landscape design, which began at the end of the 18th century, grew into a separate branch of art in the 19th century. Despite the fact that Russia geographically covers many climatic zones, landscape architects of that time managed to create magnificent parks and gardens. Any garden area was divided into zones: for walking, for relaxation, for work.

Russian design was initially based on a regular style, that is, all elements had clear boundaries and regular shapes. This style was taken from Europe and combined various architectural eras: from Baroque to Renaissance. And only in the 19th century the oriental fashion for landscape landscapes came to Russia. At that time, the design began to change, plants were planted in such a way as to seem part of nature, slightly carelessly, but absolutely harmoniously.

They were very popular among wealthy gentlemen. An obligatory attribute of the garden design were paved paths that passed under the arches of trees and led to the house itself. The connection between the housing and the site was carried out by building terraces or gazebos. Such buildings were made spacious and bright so that one could spend time in them without fuss.

Despite the fact that Russian style has borrowed a lot of ideas from other cultures, it has its own individual characteristic. Back inIn the 19th century, usable space was allocated to personal plots. Seasonal vegetables were grown on it. Also, the concept of a “pharmacy garden” appeared - a small plot on which medicinal herbs were planted.

For a long time, the Russian style was not considered by modern designers as a separate direction in creating landscapes. When architects and garden designers paid attention to it, they found many interesting garden ideas and began to put them into practice.

The emergence of such a concept as a dacha is one of the latest revolutions in the development of Russian landscape design. To apply the Russian style in the garden, you do not have to be the owner of a dacha plot of one hectare. All the main ideas of this design direction can be harmoniously placed on several hundred square meters of dacha territory. The main zones of the Russian style include:

  • The main element is always the house. It comes from him central road through other design elements.
  • The front part of the garden. Flower beds are traditionally located here: in the 19th century, hyacinths and tulips were popular.
  • A seating area is required. Here you can build a small gazebo.
  • A traditional feature of the Russian style is vegetable garden area. At dachas at the end of the 20th century, the vegetable garden began to occupy almost the entire area of ​​the plot.
  • Front garden. In this area you can plant trees and lay out a path.
  • Economic zone.

Each element in the Russian style carries a design load; several main features can be identified: borders from, small architectural forms, paths laid out in a loose line.

For the garden, you can choose both annual plants and. In the area in front of the house, annual flowers are usually planted in flower beds. Daffodils, tulips, marigolds, and asters work well. Such flowers, planted in a chaotic manner, will set the tone for the house and also visually expand the area.

Interesting! In the 19th century, housewives of manor houses planted plants on their property in warmer months, not in flower beds, but in pots. And with the onset of cold weather, the flowers were brought back into the house.

Of the trees on the dacha plot, both fruit varieties (cherry, apple, pear) and evergreen ones (spruce, pine) will look advantageous. Don't forget about linden, willow and birch. These trees can be used to plant a magnificent cascade, creating a shady alley. Under trees, it is recommended to plant plants that do not require a lot of sun, for example, or lily of the valley.

It is best to plant fragrant plants near the recreation area. Thyme, mint, oregano will give the air a unique aroma of freshness and help create an atmosphere for relaxation.

An excellent idea for your garden, if the area allows, would be. The pond can be decorated with decorative architectural elements in the form of small sculptures.

Russian country in interior and landscape design

Rustic style or Russian country is increasingly gaining popularity. Many ideas for the garden and home can be taken not only from the design of the 19th century, but also from other eras. Country style implies slight negligence, chaos. At the same time, the entire design looks absolutely harmonious. Particular attention should be paid to paths. Even if the path is paved with tiles, it is best to leave small gaps so that grass can penetrate through them. Such a path will harmoniously combine with the mood of nature. You can revive your summer cottage with the help of various decorative elements made by yourself. New ideas for a summer house and garden can be found in the photo:

Arrangement of a recreation area. Not too cozy for a personal garden, but you can borrow a harmonious combination of a fence, paths, gazebo and white birch trunks.

This photo explains a little what the English garden and the Russian estate of the 19th century have in common - a certain melancholy and at the same time dignity and respectability.

“Wild” moments can be played out in different ways, but in any case, thick, rich, slightly careless and mysterious greenery is one of the hallmarks of the Russian style.

The interior in Russian country is also rich in different ideas. You can start with appearance Houses. It is not necessary to build a wooden hut. To give a rustic style, you can use facing material in the form of beams. Carved window shutters are well suited for Russian-style interiors. The interior design of the house depends on the preferences of the owners. The cottage can be furnished with solid wood furniture. Or, on the contrary, the decoration can be light and lace. For Russian country, decoupage of furniture and the use of lace, for example, on a tablecloth, are suitable. Fresh flowers and wooden dishes as decor will always look great.

We must remember! Country style does not imply a chaotic warehouse of everything unnecessary. Russian country music is just a semblance of negligence.

How not to create a fake Russian style

It’s easy to get confused in all the variety of beautiful landscape ideas of the Russian style. The main thing is to avoid common mistakes when creating your own garden:

  • Russian style does not tolerate clutter; its main feature is space. If the dacha plot does not allow you to create all the elements of the Russian style, it is better not to use them all. In such cases, only those that the owners like best are retained.
  • The main mistake when creating a Russian style at the dacha is the use of a lawn. It should be completely abandoned.
  • Avoid using sharp corners and strict shapes.
  • The color scheme of the Russian style is always harmonious. You should not use a combination of too bright shades in one area.

Modern style “Russian estate” in the landscape

When creating landscape design, more and more designers are using the Russian estate style or, as it is usually called “Russian style”. This design move is especially popular in areas that are located in close proximity to a forest or a river.

Modern Russian style contains all the basic ideas for a beautiful garden , borrowed from 19th century architects. Modern designers carefully select flowering plants that are suitable for a particular climate zone. It is the flowers in modern style are the main element of the garden. In the middle of the central path leading from the house to the gate, designers suggest installing flower beds. All flowers in them must be combined in size and color.

Particular attention is also paid coniferous trees. If there are none on the site, then the designers suggest planting large trees. To complete the picture of the estate, designers add modern light gazebos and benches, which look harmonious in the recreation area, next to the central flower bed.

Reconstruction of an abandoned garden

A neglected garden is not a reason to be upset. Especially if fruit trees or shrubs of various types are planted on it. From such a garden you can get an almost ready-made Russian country style. Grown flowers and plants, if trimmed, can be used as borders for the path.

In cases where there are climbing plant species in abandoned areas, they will make a great pergola. Old household utensils can be used as decorative elements for the garden. The abandoned area should be diluted with new planted flowers in the same color scheme as the wild plants.

Flower garden in country style

A small detail can make the whole look. Such a bright flower garden will add color to an ordinary summer cottage and will not require any special investment.