PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL ASPECT OF NATIONAL CHARACTER IN RITUAL GAMES OF RUSSIAN PEOPLE

Nowadays there is a great interest to researches, which explore Russian national character. Russian people feel the need in national merits consolidation on the level of detailed analysis of national character (each nation is unique). The interest and desire to explain and comprehend peculiarities of Russian national character can be understood due to its extravagance and obscurity: kindness, great heartedness, merriment, reasonableness, and etc. These peculiarities are based on peculiar features of landscape and climate (plainness and northern location). The existence of an external threat and the need for rapid mobilization were the determining factor that had a significant impact on the political and social structure of the Russian lands. The implementation of the defensive tasks that Russian people carried out during the first stages of its history left its mark on Russian national character. After the invasions of the steppes, the Russian people were busy with the arrangement and restoration of the state. According to K.D. Ushinskiy the language unites people in one great historic entity: “It not only expresses the life of the people, but it is the life itself… The people can make a new homeland, but they can never make a language; if the language of the people is dead - the people are dead”.

Russian national character, Orthodoxy, Russian mentality, social organization of society