The book explores the concept of "Russian culture," reflecting the national cultural identity of the last third of the 20th - first decades of the 21st century, as well as the cultural inheritance practices most characteristic of this period. The basis for the analysis is an array of texts of a scientific and journalistic nature and those works of art (literary, theatrical, joint-stock art), the authors of which showed their attitude to such constants of Russian culture as "Homeland Native Land," "their own and others," "classics," "national" and "cosmopolitan," "word" and "truth," "truth," "conscience," "sacred," "sin," "personality," "soul," "faith," "love," "freedom," "Slavophiles and Westerners," "patriots and liberals," "state and intelligentsia."