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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... monarch were reciprocal processes : absolute rule sus- tained the image of a transcendent monarch , which in turn warranted the untrammeled exercise of power . It was this nexus that defined absolute mon- archy in Russia and that came ...
... monarchs of early modern Europe engaged in the same borrowing . The distinguishing feature of Russian monarchy was the ... monarch and their preemi- nence before the subject population . Max Weber pointed out that elites per- form ...
... monarch's ongoing scenario . They exemplified attitudes toward authority and modalities of public conduct that would prevail among the elite during each reign . As a result , ceremonies assumed different meanings and greater or lesser ...
... monarch's instru- ment and owed its power to his authority . But Russian monarchs never identified completely with the state , nor , as evolved over time in Western monarchies , allowed the state to appropriate attributes of sovereignty ...
... monarch . The tale of the invitation of the Varangians to rule over Rus ' became an emblematic histor- ical expression of the Russian people's lasting monarchical spirit . Alexander II's scenario adapted Official Nationality in two ways ...