TSAR AND GOD: SEMIOTIC ASPECTS OF THE SACRALIZATION OF THE MONARCH IN RUSSIA
Journal: Academic Studies Press eBooks
Year: 2012

Autocracy According to Divine Teaching and the Russian Orthodox Church. 9"Who does not know how we Russians look at our tsars and their children?Who has not felt that lofty feeling of ecstasy that overcomes Russians when they look upon the tsar or the tsar's son?Only Russians call their tsar 'the earthly God,'" wrote P. I. Mel`nikov-Pecherskii. 10 How should we interpret these pronouncements?What is the origin of this tradition?Is it something ancient and indigenous or new to Russia?How did the