Humanitarian space of the university: language, chronotope, institutions

The article is devoted to an urgent problem of a becoming of humanitarian space of university. On material of the first Russian higher educational institutions, the major factors promoting its formation are revealed. It is language and literature as the most important institutes of the university environment and national culture, chronotype coordinate (formation of the city center around universities, symbolics of their internal space), and also processes of museumification and a collecting as institutional bases of humanitarian space.