"The taste of the people": the problem of attendance of cultural institutions through the prism of traditional values

In article an attempt to reveal regularity between the “attendance of cultural institutions” parameter as one of indicators of efficiency of realization of the state cultural policy in Russia, and valuable preferences of audience which can have an impact on this parameter is made. The called problem comes down to the answer to a number of fundamental issues. What preferences of the modern Russian viewer, visitor of the museums, theaters, other cultural institutions? How the repertoire policy of theaters and film distributing institutions is defined? Exposition and exhibition policy of the Russian museums? As far as does the opinion of expert and professional community coincide with tastes and cultural requirements of the population of the country? How repertoire policy affects attendance of cultural institutions? What have to be proportions experimental, or so-called “relevant”, cultures and cultures “traditional”, at all convention of such terms?