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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... imperial authority in seventeenth-century chiny. Fedor's chin went a step further and referred to the Great Russian ... family, entourage, and clergy, he moved slowly across the square, stopping at the Cathedral of Archangel Michael, where he ...
... imperial family. From Peter's reign, the sovereign's children, now designated by the titles Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses, married only foreign princes and princesses. The promulgation of Peter's wedding was as important as the event ...
... imperial family, were placed on the list of official holidays, tabel'nye or vysokotorzhestvennye dni, in the manner of German princes. Most of all Peter wished to be identified as creator. When he accepted the title of imperator from ...
... imperial coats of arms and boots with spurs; their musicians played silver drums and horns. The drums and horns provided a martial counterpoint to the tolling of the bells of the churches of Moscow, as the imperial family and the court ...
... imperial funeral solemnities. Muscovite obsequies were modest events, religious observances in keeping with the ecclesiastical tenor of the tsar's life. They began with a simple cortege, of clergy, courtiers, and the tsar's family ...