Transformation of the social and cultural space in the cadet corps of the Russian empire at the end of the XVIII - the first half of the XIX century

There is analyzed the transformation of the social and cultural space in the cadet corps of the Russian Empire at the end of the XVIII - the first half of the XIX century. The author makes a conclusion that the result of the changing the liberal military education model based on the Enlightenment ideas to the repression and authoritative one was the destruction of the education space after the students' rudeness and worsening of the teaching staff.