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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... has been composed in Sabon Printed on acid - free paper . pup.princeton.edu Printed in the United States of America 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS ABBREVIATIONS PREFATORY NOTE INTRODUCTION Scenarios of Power PART.
... INTRODUCTION Scenarios of Power PART ONE : THE EUROPEAN MYTH CHAPTER ONE Signs of Empire CHAPTER TWO Peter the Great vii ix xi 1 7 9 21 CHAPTER THREE Olympian Scenarios 40 CHAPTER FOUR The Education of Princes and the Dilemma of ...
... and the elite often believed characteristic of the peasantry as a whole , and not actual peasant mentalities , that figure in this book . The particular realizations of the governing myth by the successors 2 · INTRODUCTION.
... or mother , in others tutors , who acquainted them with ideas and images of authority that diverged from their fathers ' . The new scenarios arose even as the heirs played their roles in the old . For this reason 4 INTRODUCTION •
... we turn to the inception of this process , the beginnings of the adoption of myths and signs of sovereignty and the trappings of power in early Russia . PART ONE The European Myth CHAPTER ONE Signs of Empire 6 · • INTRODUCTION.