“Savior of Nations”—contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional Russian state idea and its representations in Orthodox art
Journal: Harrassowitz Verlag eBooks
Year: 2025

The practices associated with the sacralization of history by many nations and states are well known and widely described by researchers.In the Russian tradition, from the 16 th to 17 th centuries, they revolve around two main state-building concepts: Holy Rus and Moscow as the Third Rome (the idea of translatio imperii), to which sometimes a third, less widespread concept of Moscow as the New Jerusalem (translatio sacri) can be added. 1 Combining political and religious elements, they have perm