The book is a textbook on the discipline "Culture of everyday life," an integral part of the State educational standard in the specialty "Cultural Studies," dedicated to the history of everyday life, holidays and beliefs, life and national character of residents of the city and village in Russia. The author draws a wide panorama of Russian everyday life of the XIX-XX centuries. with its special subject world, way of life, mutual influence of cultures, gives a holistic description of the life of the nation from the ruling elite to the marginalized, their work and rest, moral and aesthetic values. For students of humanitarian specialties of universities and all interested in the history of the Fatherland.