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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... nobility taste and refinement. He pursued the goal of creating a new elite responsive to his conception of the state with the same ruthless ferocity that accompanied his military reform. Peter replaced the old decorum of humility ...
... nobility, at both official functions and the less formal assamblei. The public presentation of women had great significance for Peter's and subsequent reigns. The devotion to the world of the sublime and genteel in late seventeenth ...
... nobility and the towns made the observance a show of national grief and respect. The Opisanie thus confirmed the presence and participation of representatives of the Russian state. Peter was buried in the cathedral in the Peter-Paul ...
... nobility in defending an alliance with the crown that lasted until the accession of Paul I in 1796. These decades saw the increase of the nobles' power over their serfs. The eighteenth-century state was a shared system of domination ...
... nobility. Accession decrees and coronations presented the empresses as benefactresses of the realm. But if Peter exercised what Norbert Elias described as the leadership of the conqueror, the empresses of eighteenth-century Russia ...