"Tsar and God" and other essays in Russian cultural semiotics
By: Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov ; translated from Russian by Marcus C. Levitt, David Budgen, and Liv Bliss ; edited by Marcus C. Levitt
Contributors: Zhivov, V. M.; Levitt, Marcus C., 1954-; Budgen, D. (David); Bliss, Liv
Series: Ars Rossika; Ars Rossika
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781936235490; 9781618118042
Subjects: Religion; History; Orthodox Eastern Church; Semiotics; Religion and culture; Religious aspects; Language and culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the Russian.
Table of contents: title: Tsar and God : semiotic aspects of the sacralization of the monarch in Russia / B.A. Uspenskij and V.M. Zhivov. The sacralization of the monarch in the context of historical and cultural development ; The sacralization of the monarch as a semiotic process ; The civil cult of the monarch in the system of Baroque culture ; Conclusions ; Notes; title: Tsar and pretender : Samozvanchestvo or royal imposture in Russia as a cultural-historical phenomenon / B.A. Uspenskij ; Notes; title: Enthronement in the Russian and Byzantine traditions / B.A. Uspenskij ; Notes; title: Europe as a metaphor and metonymy (in relation to the history of Russia) / B.A. Uspenskij ; Notes; title: Cultural reforms in Peter's I's system of transformations / V.M. Zhivov. Cultural reforms and semiotic propaganda ; Innovations in church ritual ; The civil cult ; Parody and blasphemy as rituals of the public sphere ; Blasphemy in the paradigm of the new power ; Concluding remarks ; Notes; title: The myth of the state in the Age of Enlightenment and its destruction in late eighteenth-century Russia / V.M. Zhivov ; Notes.