Culture policy of the russian rightists at the beginning of the 20th century

The article examines the cultural policy of the Russian right-wing parties and unions of the early XX century. Attention is drawn to the perception of the leaders of monarchical organizations of the processes that took place in various spheres of the cultural life of the Russian Empire. The article analyzes the speeches of right-wing politicians and publicists on literature, theater, and cinema. The efforts of the right-wingers in popularizing the spiritual, scientific and cultural heritage, historical achievements of the Russian people, glorification of its heroes are shown. The specifics of cultural events held by monarchists are revealed. It is proved that the leaders of the Russian right-wing parties focused their efforts not only on criticizing the processes and phenomena in culture and art that disturbed them, but also sought to reverse the situation in this area themselves.

Russian Empire, right-wing parties, Black Hundreds, Russian nationalists, cultural politics, literature, theater, cinema