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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... political order respond- ing to his will . As the chapters indicate , imagery and pageantry made it clear that Russian monarchs were neither bound by the limits of the everyday nor subject to mundane judgment . Representation lifted ...
... political imagery and myths , but , until the late nineteenth century , as an antithesis that was repeatedly submerged by a dominant foreign motif.1 The presentation and representation of the monarch elevated not only the ruler , but ...
... political circumstances of the time . Ceremonies figured not as discrete and unrelated events but as episodes in the monarch's ongoing scenario . They exemplified attitudes toward authority and modalities of public conduct that would ...
... 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 acclamation ...
... politics of the early twentieth century . Nicholas's scenario made the restoration of autocratic power a religious ... political ideals hallowed by Western ideologies . Now we turn to the inception of this process , the beginnings of ...