STATEHOOD CONCEPT AND POLITICAL CULTURE OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA AT THE XVIII <sup>TH</sup>-XIX <sup>TH</sup> CENTURIES TURN
The article is devoted to the analysis of statehood pattern in the political culture of imperial Russia of the end of the XVIII th – the beginning of the XIX th century. Original marking-out of political space is conducted that allowed structuring it and revealing the peculiarities, contours and limits of political modernization. Attempt is undertaken to keep away from stereotype, traditional research approaches to political sphere studying, multi-vectorial coordinate system is suggested, on which different aspects of political system are projected. It allowed revealing different sense nuances in political process, various, different-vector tendencies of the studied object development.