Cultural context of the Age of Enlightenment and patriotic discourse in Britain and Russia

In historiography, there is no holistic study of the history of the concepts of "patriot" and "patriotism" both in Britain and in Russia, just as there is no comparative historical study using a fairly wide range of sources. This article, of course, does not set the task of a full-scale study of the "patriotic" discourse, and even only the concepts of patriot and patriotism in the two countries over a century and a half. Here we present in a concentrated form the results of a comparison of specific versions of the use of data and similar concepts in qualitatively different socio-political contexts, with an attempt to identify the presence of common meanings behind obvious features. We are talking, on the one hand, about the deeply rooted components of the ideological and cultural heritage, and on the other hand, about the real fruits of intellectual transfer.