Society can not be homogeneous, there is alwaysthose who can, want, receive more, and those who by all means only try to survive. In this article, let's talk about "superhumans", or "gruesomes," - aristocracy.
Classes
A class is a historically formed group of people in a society that has one attitude to property and the division of labor.
In any society, there are usually three main classes:
- the lowest (oppressed);
- the supreme (ruling);
- middle (living by the products of the oppressed, striving for the higher).
In different historical periods there were classesslaveowners and slaves, feudal lords and peasants, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, and others. Each class has its own layers, which further divide, disunite people.
The upper layer of the privileged class
Every person strives for better living conditions. But there are such peaks in a society that it is almost impossible to achieve, so special it is necessary to be born to get into a privileged class.
Princes, nobles, boyars are the elite of the Russian society of the 18th century.
At the beginning there was a man, he was stronger in a difficult situation, smarter, faster than others, he was respected and extolled. Glory extended to his children and subsequent descendants.
That is, initially everyone could earn respectand veneration, so formed a certain kind. Several such genera formed into a class. A person from the upper stratum could proclaim another equal to himself for special merits - to give the title (to rank to a certain layer).
The more actively developed (stratified) society, the more difficult it was to get into the upper stratum of the privileged class. As a result, such an opportunity for the layman was practically reduced to zero.
Russian aristocracy
"Know", "aristocracy" - all these are terms that denote the upper layer of the privileged class.
People who were fortunate enough to be ranked in one way or another have the opportunity to get a better education, travel, engage in science. The whole world is open to them.
But in tsarist Russia, the upper stratum of the privileged class was given a great responsibility. They were the main representatives of the country's power, the face of the country, and they had to look accordingly.
This concerned education, knowledge of foreignlanguages, political situation in the world, etiquette, fashion, dance, martial and fine arts - in all. In any sphere of human activity, an aristocrat should have been the best.
The children were brought up with the desire for the ideal - honor, intelligence, virtue, compassion and all the bright things that should be in a man were valued.
Any aristocrat would be much better able to cope with many difficulties of life in general and life in particular, compared with many modern women.
