To understanding the concept of the house in the works of writers of the second half of the XIX century, and in particular the N. S. Leskov, very important, in our opinion, the views of the Slavophiles on family values. Writer created by your antinihilist novel «On the knives» in the 1860s, many developing Slavophile concept of shelter. On a material of this novel consider two families living under one roof, but in different ways to equip your life. Attempts to identify features views N. S. Leskov to home and family.