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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... throne grew up within a world of ceremonial performance. Ritual, verbal, and artistic expressions of the court, the theater of power, constituted their psychological reality, defining their relationship to parents and servitors as well ...
... throne, I call scenarios of power. The scenarios cast each 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 ...
... throne sought to perpetuate the governing myth and support the claims to supremacy and transcendence. Tutors acquainted them with historical examples of heroic rule and Western ideals of enlightened government. But the European models ...
... throne. Scenarios, as we shall see, changed in content and presentation. However, the myth, whether European or National, precluded a sharing of power, or even the delegation of power—as in the case of the appointment of a responsible ...
... . The code established the basis for a state-sponsored system of bondage, which cemented the alliance between the military servitors and the throne. Peasant discontent would erupt in bloody revolts over the next 12 • C H A P T E R O N E •