Author of quotes: Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman

There are two main conditions for the development of an educated and decent person: it is to be able to talk with an intelligent person and read intelligent books.

... perceived it primarily as an extraordinarily intelligent man, whose home life is centered in thought. And one of the main features of mind is that it has a minimum of external manifestations. It manifests itself negatively: in the absence of banality, the lack of effects in many absences from that, what is our usual behavior, our insensible us stupid.

The role of the seconds was as follows: as a mediator between the opponents, first of all they were obliged to make every effort towards reconciliation. The duties of the seconds were lying to explore all possibilities without prejudice to the interests of honor and especially following the observance of the rights of his principal, for a peaceful solution to the conflict. Even on the battlefield the seconds required to make one last attempt for reconciliation.

A duel implies a strict ritual of the executable. Only punctual adherence to the established order is different from the match away with murder.

If it happens that two in a designated place out and against the other sword bare, then We command per se, although none of these hurt or will not be put to death, without mercy, takozh and secundatum or witnesses that will prove mortal to execute and add belongings to unsubscribe.

Offended can qualify as a deadly insult, requiring for its removal the death of one of the participants in the quarrel. Essentially, the assessment of the measure of abuse is a minor, by blood or death was correlated with the assessment by the surrounding social environment.

Ideal, which creates a noble culture implies complete expulsion of fear and the assertion of honour as the main legislative behavior.

As a nobleman, a man of class, which was socially dominant corporate, and cultural elite, he obeyed the laws of honor. Psychological stimulus of subordination here is a shame.

A duel is a specific procedure to restore the honor and can not be understood outside the specifics of the concept of "honor" in the General system of ethics of Russian noble society.

Duel - a duel taking place according to certain rules doubles battle, with the purpose of restoration of dignity, the removal of the offended shameful stain caused by the insult.

Culture starts with the bans.

Literary work, yet it is directly concerned with the reader now, that is changing. Its dynamic development has not stopped, and each generation of readers, it turns into a new face.

To exhaust the text of Onegin is impossible. How detail nor would we have stayed on the political allusions, significant omissions, the household realities or literary associations, the comment, which clarifies various aspects of the meaning of Pushkin's lines, there is always room for new questions and searches for answers.

Signs have the ability to energetically unequal impact. Based on the same power of words. The effect which it produces cannot be matched with expenditure of energy on his enunciation.