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The Russian estate was a system of special historical relations. This concept is contextually connected with broader phenomena — “estate culture”, “estate tradition”, “estate text”. A modern understanding of the past is inevitably associated with an appeal to various kinds of narratives (F.R. Ankersmit, D. Lowenthal, R. Franzosi, W. Labov, F. Cattaneo, St. Тутњевић). The aesthetics of being and the aesthetics of the artistic text cannot be perceived as identical concepts. However, the analysis of memoir sources and works of Russian literary classics allows us to clarify the structure and imagery of the world of the Russian estate, to reveal the paradigm of internal actional characteristics. Research priorities of recent decades have been an attempt to systematically interpret various sources, the desire to answer the question of what realities (biographical, behavioral, existential) the “estate text” was actually “woven” from. This is precisely what today is the condition for overcoming spiritual alienation, preserving cultural continuity, possibly revealing the values of the world of Russian estate.