Cross-Cultural Communications of “Old Sarepta”: Ethno-pedagogical Museum Heritage

¹ Volgograd State University, 400062, Universitetskiy Av., 100, Volgograd, Russia, nadezhda.archebasova@volsu.ru
² Kazan Federal University, 420008, Kazan, St. Kremlin, 18, Kazan, Russia, lenok776@mail.ru

^* Corresponding author: nadezhda.archebasova@volsu.ru

Abstract

In the 18-19 centuries, the mass migration of the European Germans to Russia led to the creation of a sub-ethnos of the Germans in the Volga region. The “Old Sarepta” Museum-Reserve is currently an international center of studying the most famous German colony in the South of Russia. The authors of the article have used an interdisciplinary approach. They have analyzed the connection between cross-cultural communications of the Sarepta “cultural unit” and ethno-pedagogical methods of socialization of its representatives. The information sources of the research are documents of archival funds, memories of travelers and residents of the colony, biographies of the famous Volga Germans. The authors characterize the achievements of the educational system, generalize historical practices and reconstruction which have already been studied. The paper allows one to interpret better the value orientations and behavioral stereotypes of people brought up in the junction of different cultural societies. The obtained data are useful for studying behavior of people from multiethnic population groups in modern megalopolises.