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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... force each other . The expansion of empire confirmed the image of supreme power and justified the unlimited authority of the Russian emperors . The monarchs of early modern Europe engaged in the same borrowing . The distinguishing ...
... force . In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a util- itarian discourse glorified the ruler as triumphant bearer of civilization and progress . The Petrine triumph , Olympian celebrations , imperial parades ele- vated the ...
... force , however , always remained in evidence . In this book , I observe a fundamental distinction between the monar- chy as an institution , the monarch's space — his family , his friends , lovers , favorites — and the state , the ...
... force against the revolu- tionary movement and the silencing of political opposition . He appeared as a transcendent expression of the nation , a powerful authoritarian native ruler . The people displayed their accordance not by shows ...
... force in the politics of the early twentieth century . Nicholas's scenario made the restoration of autocratic power a religious mission conferred upon him directly by God . His faith in the efficacy of punitive violence was derived from ...