Nobility estates
Why do we always refer to nobility estates speaking about the golden nineteenth century Russian culture? The selfless devotion of the most educated representatives of the Russian Enlightenment promoted emerging a nobility estate as the phenomenon that became the source of the Russian high culture. Nobility estates turned into the social and material framework of the cultural life of an exceptional scale and resonance. The desire of the newly formed nineteenth century Russian Europeans not to conquer but to transform the nature led to the spreading across Russia beautiful ideal worlds that were so happily created and later on so easily destroyed.