Philosophical and cultural question whether Russia's elite is part of the Western world, Western culture or not was the object of analysis of Russian intelligentsia, that is well-known representatives of Russian philosophy P. Chaadaev, Khomyakov, K., Solovyov, N. Berdyaev, I. Ilyin, N. Lossky (1991) and others. The question about the cultural and historical features of Russian elite became the part of wider philosophical discourse. Developed nobility of the political elite at the 30-ies of XIX century it received two major trends in the development. One Direction is Westerners believed that Russia just behind the leading European countries, and the need to continue to learn from the West. Other direction - Slavophiles - pursued the idea that "Russia lost its own cultural identity under the influence of the reforms of Peter the Great. It should revive in own self the old Russian beginning of life and culture, taking from the West all the positive achievements to be able to tell the world of their own, a new word" (Levitsky, 1996, p. 45). The comparative philosophical-historical analysis of the features of the development and interaction of Russian and European elites identified the following philosophical basics of cultural and historical development of Russian and European elites: 1. The Russian elitism is based on Western European elite. History of Western aristocracy influenced on the cultural and historical development of the Russian nobility, as in the whole Russian nation. The important fact is that Russian super-ethnos is more younger than European on 400 years (Danilevsky) or on 500 years (L. Gumilyov). 2. Both Russian and Western elitism relies on values of humanism and rationalism as the two most important ideologies. 3. Political and spiritual elites of Russia and Europe are in constant cross-cultural interaction, mutual influence on each other. 4. Dialogue between Russian and European elites is happening not only on the level of cultural institutes, government and international cultural associations and unions but also on the level of individuals. The value of interpersonal dialogue between the representatives of the spiritual, cultural and political Russian and Western elites is extremely important. 5. The common value foundations of cross-cultural interaction between Russia and the European elites are universal values of love, charity, mutual aid, cooperation, patience. Reliance on these values does not mean orientation only on traditional institutions, rules and regulations, but facilitate progressive innovation development of elitism
