No 2 (2009)

The article is devoted to the large social oppositional statement of «Age of Great Reforms» - to address of Moscow nobility 1865 and to reaction to it from supremacy and Grand Prince Konstantin Nikolayevich. Grand Prince was a leader of moderate-liberal wing of governmental camp. Discussion around address of Moscow nobility promoted to political separation of different social forces and making new projects of people's representation.

In article are analyzed socio-cultural conditions of formation of the Moscow Noble meeting (since 1810 of the Russian Noble meeting) and its places in club structure of Moscow of the prereform period.

In clause it is analyzed conditions of the maintenance of foreign prisoners of war in Russia during the First world war. The author has shown with what difficulties the reasons of high death rate of prisoners of war and the ambiguous attitude from authorities to prisoners of war, having slavic an origin and prisoners of war other nationalities collided foreign prisoners of war, got in Russia.

The object of the article is the cost price of defensive structures of different construction: palisade, log-made and stone-made. The analysis is based on written sources of the 17th century. A calculation of the cost of labour and material as well as man-hours has been made. It is shown that the cost of defensive walls increased from palisade to log walls in the tarassy style and to stone walls. Stone walls cost about 30 times more than log ones. And yet, in spite of high costs, the Russian State often preferred stone fortifications to wooden ones and roskaty to towers.

The article is devoted to the problems of law enforcement of the Decree on April, 17, 1905 «About Toleration» in Northwest edge of Russian empire. Author gives the special attention to the reactions to the Decree of three interested sides, - to administration of edge and two leading faiths - Orthodox and Catholic. The author analyzes the reasons of occurrence of new receptions of missionary work of Catholic Church and anatomy of the interconfessional conflicts which have arisen in conditions of becoming of religious freedom.

The paper proposed the method for study of religious communities in Russia. An indicator of religious culture are processes to the category sacral. As a factual base elected sources on the history of modern Old Believers churches. We have the right to formulate a prediction: in a globalizing personification sacral retain their value to the followers of conservative religious communities.

In the centre of research of the article - an image of Napoleon during Patriotic War of 1812 as it is presented by authors of one of the most authoritative magazines of that time - «The Son of Fatherland». Opinions of authors are investigated through a prism of two basic approaches to Antinapoleonic subject - liberal and conservative. Also publicistic and literary techniques are analyzed by means of which the main goals of publishers - to excite hatred to the leader of the French army and to inspire Russian society on struggle against the enemy have been achieved.

The experience of realization of state programme «Patriotic education of citizens of Russian Federation in 2006-2010» during the curse «Russian History» at faculties of Sciences in Peoples Friendship University of Russia is analyzed in the article. There are presented some proposals for improving of educational process in Russian high school.