Communication as a constituent form of organization of activity in pedagogical systems of nobler educational institutions in Russia

Abstract

The article attempts to show the culture of heart as the main value of Russian nobility culture in the early XIX century. On the materials of different researches and sources is given an idea of heartiness as the most important quality in the tradition of orthodoxy; the nobility is given as a bearer and disseminator of Russian Orthodox culture’s values, and numerous facts prove that life philosophy of Russian noblesse in the time of Russian culture’s prime was built on conviction that it is the heart where all human dignity lies. Author claims that idealistic views on the cultured man in the beginning of the XVIII century in the nobility were inconsistent with polite ignorance or coarseness and pedantry. Russian aristocrat of that time was presented as a man of reason, educated not just only in secular things, but in religion, catechism and theology. A rationale of the use of the term is given — author underlines that the term heart used in Russian nobility culture is a structure–forming element, simultaneously feeding the complex of all the ethic achievements of society and having all that achievements in himself. On various factual materials is shown that teaching heart culture means “impression” in the heart of all the rest values of Russian nobility culture, allocation of the concrete number of those is too contingently due to Russian culture’s nature of values placed in Holy Scripture. Among the components that fill the term «heart culture» are stated such as silent veneration of Christian piety, compassion, pity and love, carefulness in teaching religious feelings, reinforcing each other in the thorny way of life, rigorousness to one’s self, forgiveness of other’s weaknesses and simultaneously the intolerance to meanness. Author focuses attention that heartiness nowadays is not just found in public official culture norms, but often is restricted, and the notion “goodness” today is directly related to “usefulness” (N.V. Golik).