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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... Scenarios of Power PART ONE : THE EUROPEAN MYTH CHAPTER ONE Signs of Empire CHAPTER TWO Peter the Great vii ix xi 1 7 ... Scenario of Love 189 CHAPTER ELEVEN The Tsar - Emancipator CHAPTER TWELVE The Crisis of Autocracy 205 219 PART TWO ...
... Scenarios of Power The Splendor of Russian imperial ceremonies and celebrations is a gener- ally known historical fact , as is the persistence of absolute monarchy long after it had disappeared in the West . This book contends that the ...
... scenario . Beginning with Peter's reign , Russian emperors and empresses emulated Western monarchs , distinguishing themselves from seventeenth - century rep- resentations , and performed what I call the European myth . The scenarios ...
... scenarios of Russian rulers . Each reign resumed the Petrine cadence , opening with ener- getic demonstrative change , a discrediting , explicit or implicit of the prede- cessor , a new vision of the creative perspective of the autocrat ...
... scenario adapted Official Nationality in two ways . He made the peas- ants prominent figures in imperial ceremonies . The narrative of Official Nationality then presented the Great Reforms of the 1860s as generous acts of the monarch ...