Abstract
On the basis of analysis of memoirs of representatives of nobility, both emigrants, and remained in the Soviet Russia, estimates of everyday life of 1920-ies years are presented in the article. The analysis of the latest researches of historians in which changes in consciousness and behavior of representatives of nobility in the 1920–1930-ies are lit is given. Features of perception of daily occurrence are shown, their dependence on the extent of adaptation of «former» to the new social reality is noted. The comparative analysis of memoirs has shown a community of cultural stereotypes preventing social adaptation. It is emphasized that originally the policy of the ruling power has been aimed at social, cultural and psychological exclusion
of representatives of pre-revolutionary elite, and in the early thirties on physical destruction of potential opposition, on exclusion of potential possibility of transition of cultural stereotypes from prerevolutionary»
generations to the generation of children and youth.