CONSERVATISM, LIBERALISM AND PEASANT ISSUE IN SOCIAL-POLITICAL THOUGHT OF RUSSIA AT THE TURN OF THE XVIII-XIX CENTURIES
The article considers the problem of the attitude of different directions of noble public opinion in Russia, namely liberals and conservatives, to peasant issue at the end of the XVIII - the first quarter of the XIX century. The author of the work substantiates the thesis about the similarity of their approaches to this problem associated primarily with the desire of the landed nobility to retain the array of land ownership, as well as with the wish to continue their influence on the peasantry and some stability in the Russian society.