Dialectics of External and Internal in Perception of Marriage and Family Relations in Russia During the Pre-petrine Period
In the article, the questions of history and culture of the family relations during a pre-Petrine period in Russia which are actually now considered. Now it is customary to look for the reasons of many modern social problems in the reforms having been carried out by Peter I in the 17th century. However, during pre-Petrine period, the paradigm of cultural development of the Russian society had already been outlined and supplemented, changed and revalued in the subsequent time. It is necessary to study culture of the Russian society during this period. It is so possible to see the prime causes of emergence of many crisis phenomena in life of modern society. The family as a value in the Russian culture had not developed directly, it required considerable time. One of stages of this cultural development of a family in the Russian society is offered to consideration. At the appointed time, the nature of the social relations in Russia can be determined as “ritual piety”. The phenomenon is in general contradictory as there is a resonance between the external forms of people’s family life and the moral content of these forms. The reasons of this resonance mentioned in the article are: first, it is the nature of Christianization of the Russian people and, as a result, the remaining semi-pagan perception of Christian belief for a long time; secondly, it is the total low level of education and enlightenment of most people; thirdly, it is insufficient understanding of opportunities of the development of the family relations by the society at that time.