Fathers and children in literature and everyday life of the late 18th – early 19th century

Abstract

The article refers to the relationship between fathers and children on the pages of literary works and in everyday life in the late 18th – early 19th centuries. The relationship between fathers and children is considered on the examples of two families – the families of Decembrists P.I. Pestel and S.I. Muravyov-Apostol. It is concluded that in those families there was a serious worldview conflict between parents and children. The literature of that epoch failed to see and describe the conflict, traditionally continuing to consider children as mere executors of their parents’ instructions.