RUSSIAN INTELLECTUALS AT THE TURN OF XVIII-XIX CENTURIES IN SEARCH OF CULTURAL AND POLITICAL IDENTITY
The topic of the article is cultural and political identity of Russia as the object of the Russian intellectuals (the end of the XVIII - the start of the XIX centuries). The main attention is focused at the structure of a semantic space characteristic for the process of political reflection of that period. The article reveals the system of co-ordinates in which take shape theoretical basis of political, legal, historic, cultural views of some representatives of the Russian intellectual elite.