Otroku blagochestie blyusti

Russkoe dvoryanstvo — eto i vysshaya aristokratiya, dopuschennaya ko dvoru, i aristokratiya nepridvornaya, no rodovitaya, i melkopomestnye dvoryane, i priobretshie dvoryanstvo po poryadku sluzhby oficery i chinovniki. Suschestvovali dvoryane potomstvennye i lichnye. Eti sloi pochti ne smeshivalis' mezhdu soboy, no v ideale, a chasto i v real'noy zhizni, ih ob'edinyali osobye ponyatiya o chesti, zameshannye na chuvstve sobstvennogo dostoinstva, zabota o reputacii svoey sem'i i iskrennee zhelanie sluzhit' Otechestvu. Obychno o metodah vospitaniya sudyat po plodam, kotorye oni prinosyat. I esli vspomnit' XIX stoletie, zolotoy vek Rossii, ee luchshih pisateley, poetov, voinov, diplomatov, nezhnyh i predannyh ih sputnic, to mozhno sdelat' vyvod, chto, pozhaluy, luchshego vospitaniya, chem dvoryanskoe, v nashey strane i ne bylo. O tom, chto lezhalo v ego osnove, rasskazyvaet kniga Very Bokovoy.