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Zusatztext "Praise for Princeton's original edition: "The formidable variety of evidence Wortman has amassed in this volume for his novel conclusions about the nature of Russian autocracy and downfall of the Romanovs puts Scenarios of Power at the top of the reading list not just for the serious students of Imperial Russia but for all scholars interested in the power of cultural symbols to shape history."" ---Priscilla Roosevelt, Russian Review Informationen zum Autor Richard S. Wortman is Bryce Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Columbia University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis ILLUSTRATIONS vii ABBREVIATIONS ix PREFATORY NOTE xi INTRODUCTION: Scenarios of Power 1 PART ONE: THE EUROPEAN MYTH 7 CHAPTER ONE: Signs of Empire 9 CHAPTER TWO: Peter the Great 21 CHAPTER THREE: Olympian Scenarios 40 CHAPTER FOUR: The Education of Princes and the Dilemma of Neoclassicism 73 CHAPTER FIVE: The Emperor Paul I 85 CHAPTER SIX: The Angel on the Throne 98 CHAPTER SEVEN: Nicholas I 120 CHAPTER EIGHT: Epitomes of the Nation 142 CHAPTER NINE: Parents and Son 166 CHAPTER TEN: Alexander II and the Scenario of Love 189 CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Tsar-Emancipator 205 CHAPTER TWELVE: The Crisis of Autocracy 219 PART TWO: A NATIONAL MYTH 243 CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Making of a Russian Tsar 245 CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Inauguration of a National Myth 263 CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Resurrection of Muscovy 282 CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Life and Death of a Russian Tsar 303 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Nicholas II as Heir and Husband 317 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Accession and Coronation of Nicholas II 334 CHAPTER NINETEEN: Demonstrations of Godliness 347 CHAPTER TWENTY: Nicholas II and the Revolution of 1905 361 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Historical Celebrations 377 CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Nicholas II and World War I 397 CONCLUSION 411 NOTES 415 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 449 INDEX 453 ...
