Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy from Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II - New Abridged One-Volume EditionPrinceton University Press, 2013年10月31日 - 512 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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... prince as emperor expressed the sense, fundamental to later Russian political attitudes, that imperial sovereignty was the only true sovereignty. Ivan first used the term “autocrat,” samoderzhets, a calque of the Greek (autocrator), to ...
... Prince created an imagined genealogy that drew a direct connection between the Moscow prince and his presumed Byzantine forebears. The second part, The Legend of Monomakh, contrived a long tradition and “ancient” regalia for the Russian ...
... prince's valor in his invasion or threatened invasion of Constantinople. It accentuated the derivative character of Russian sovereignty: sanction came not from God directly, but through the acquiescence of the Byzantine emperor. The ...
... Prince Dmitrii Pozharskii, a military servitor. The movement culminated with the convening of an assembly of all the estates of the realm, which, after considerable intrigue, in 1613 elected Michael Romanov tsar. The end of the Troubles ...
... Prince F. Iu Romanodovskii, who also headed the Preobrazhenskii Chancellery, “the chancellery of Transfiguration,” the kernel of Peter's secret police. Peter played the role of officer in the ranks, Captain Peter Alekseev. But it was he ...