Title: Visual texts, ceremonial texts, texts of exploration : collected articles on the representation of Russian monarchy /
Authors: Wortman, Richard,; Kasinec, Edward,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Propaganda, Russian.; Symbolism in politics Russia History.; Political culture Russia History.; Russia Kings and rulers.; Russia Politics and government; Russia Politics and government; Russia Social life and customs; Russia Social life and customs
Abstract: "Addresses the legal and symbolic features of monarchical rule in Russia ... to show how representation and a culture of representation affected the practices and fate of the Russian monarchy. The articles ... deal with specific issues such as the development of Russian law and legal institutions, the narratives and imagery of the dynasty, and the relation of the monarchy to concepts of the Russian nation and empire. In this context, they trace the evolution of imperial and national myths, the invention of tradition in Russia, the changing roles of St. Petersburg and Moscow as symbolic capitals, the efforts to integrate nationalities into a nation state, and the principle of territorial integrity in the lexicon of rule.w"--Back cover
Contents: The Mythology of Empire: Imperial Russian Coronation Albums (With Edward Kasinec) -- Ceremony and Empire in the Evolution of Russian Monarchy -- Signs of Empire: Exotic Peoples at Imperial Russian Coronations -- Publicizing the Imperial Image in 1913 -- Alexei Olenin, Fedor Solntsev, and the Development of a Russian National Esthetic -- Cultural Metamorphoses of Imperial Myth under Catherine the Great and Nicholas I -- Myth and Memory: Imperial Evocations of 1812. Alexander I and the Russian People -- "Glas naroda": Visual Representations of Russian Monarchy in the Era of Emancipation -- The "Russian Style" in Church Architecture as Imperial Symbol after 1881 -- St. Petersburg the Imperial City and Peter Tchaikovsky -- Texts of Exploration and Russia's European Identity -- Russian Noble Officers and the Ethos of Exploration -- Koshelev, Samarin, and Cherkasskii and the Fate of Liberal Slavophilism -- Tolstoy and the Perception of Poverty: Tolstoy's "What Then Must We Do?" -- Property Rights, Populism, and Russian Political Culture -- Thought, Culture, and Power: Reflections of a Russianist -- The Moscow-Tartu School: Review of S. Iu. Nekliudov, ed., Moskovsko-tartuskaia semioticheskaia shkola. Istoriia, vospominaniia, razmyshleniia (Moscow: Shkola "Iazyki russkoi kul'tury", 1998) -- Brief Recollection of Vladimir Nabokov -- Marc Raeff: Memorial Thoughts -- Leopold Haimson: Remembrance on the Occasion of his Memorial Service, March 25, 2011.