The monograph examines the evolution of the educational practices of the noble-intellectual families of Russia in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries as a special sociocultural phenomenon that was influenced by numerous factors caused by the era of bourgeois modernization of the country. Based on a wide range of sources, including archival documents, and the use of modern literature, changes have been revealed in various areas of child education - civil-patriotic, religious, labor, physical, sexual education.