Sleptsova t.V. —
Sport as a form of leisure in aristocratic culture of the late XIX - early XX centuries (on the example of fiction writings)
// Philosophy and Culture. – 2017. – ¹ 10.
– P. 1 - 11.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2017.10.23190
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/fkmag/article_23190.html
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Abstract: Sport is viewed as a form of active and respectable leisure that became popular in Russia in the late XIX – early XX centuries among the upper classes. The article analyzes the reasons, which led Russia towards shifting from the Greek-Byzantine model of leisure to Western European, bringing the examples of fiction writings that reflect the genesis and evolution of sport, enthusiasm of the representatives of nobility for such types of sports and physical activity, as billiard, lawn tennis, cricket, fencing, gymnastics, horse racing, equestrian sports, ice skating, and cycling. Methodology of systemic and axiological approaches used in the research, substantiates the inclusion of examples illustrating the phenomenon of sport in the Russian classics. The analysis of oeuvres by L. N. Tolstoy, A. P. Chekhov, I. A. Bunin, V. V. Nabokov allows concluding that in multiple noble families, the organization of active leisure, physical education, demands in sports activity and healthy lifestyle, were of great importance; thus, the enthusiasm for sports has gradually become the component of everyday culture of the representatives of upper classes.