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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... ruler and the elite with foreign images of political power . Arising on the ruins of the Mongol empire , far from the Roman empire , and at the periphery of the Byzantine empire , Russian princes and the early tsars had difficulty ...
... rulers . In all cases , the source of sacrality was distant from Russia whether it was beyond the sea , whence the ... ruler , but his servitors as well above the ruled . Joining imperial ceremonies , the elite displayed their personal ...
... ruler as mythic hero transforming the myth to fit his personal views and tastes , as well as the cultural and political circumstances of the time . Ceremonies figured not as discrete and unrelated events but as episodes in the monarch's ...
... rulers increasingly identified with the state and measured their successes in terms of its expansion and transformation . The state was the monarch's instru- ment and owed its power to his authority . But Russian monarchs never ...