Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy from Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas IIPrinceton University Press, 2006年3月26日 - 491 頁 This new and abridged edition of Scenarios of Power is a concise version of Richard Wortman's award-winning study of Russian monarchy from the seventeenth century until 1917. The author breaks new ground by showing how imperial ceremony and imagery were not simply displays of the majesty of the sovereign and his entourage, but also instruments central to the exercise of absolute power in a multinational empire. In developing this interpretation, Wortman presents vivid descriptions of coronations, funerals, parades, trips through the realm, and historical celebrations and reveals how these ceremonies were constructed or reconstructed to fit the political and cultural narratives in the lives and reigns of successive tsars. He describes the upbringing of the heirs as well as their roles in these narratives and relates their experiences to the persistence of absolute monarchy in Russia long after its demise in Europe. |
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... Novoe Vremia Polnoe Sobranie Zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii ( Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire ) RGIA Russian State Historical Archive , St. Petersburg PREFATORY NOTE This volume is meant for a broader audience ABBREVIATIONS ...
... empire , far from the Roman empire , and at the periphery of the Byzantine empire , Russian princes and the early tsars had difficulty creating native images of sovereign power that would set them above the ruled and allow them to ...
... empire , the heritage of the Byzantine emperor as the defender of Orthodoxy . These meanings were conflated and served to rein- force each other . The expansion of empire confirmed the image of supreme power and justified the unlimited ...
... empire . The political conflict of the early twentieth century took on its particularly violent and destructive character in part because of the resolute intransigence inculcated by the myth . In the eighteenth century , staged shows of ...
... empire . The collapse of the tsarist regime in February 1917 left Russia without a civic nation . The polit- ical vacuum would be filled by a new incarnation of power , reliant on demonstrative use of force , and claiming to achieve ...