The Russian country-estate as an object for historical and cultural research

The article deals with the problem of researching of Russian country-estates as a historical-cultural phenomenon. The main phases of researching of Russian country-estates are exposed and characterized in this article. The source of its process, when conservation and researching of Russian country-estate were represented as an scientific problem for the first time, is analyzed by the author. Based on specific scientific research the author explains not only historical perspective, but the current trends in research of Russian country-estates. The author focuses on the important role of interdisciplinary scientific works of the latest decades, in which the Russian country-estates is considered as a part of a larger picture, as a “whole scheme of things”. The author comes to a conclusion that the process of study is endless whereas comprehensive historiography of this theme. New source and know-how can be the basement for this process.