Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule [Wortman]

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Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule (Imperial Russia). Richard Wortman. Academic Studies Press, 2013. [Abridged edition.] 332 pages. 12 scholarly articles by Wortman organized by Monarchy and Law, Family and Nation, Monarch and Nation, Monarchy and Imperial State. Footnotes, a bibliography of the author's works, and an index.

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Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule is devoted to studies of the political culture of the Russian monarchy as it influenced aspects of historical development such as law, representations of family, and concepts of nation and empire. The articles show how the narratives described in the author’s two-volume study, Scenarios of Power, guided monarchical rule, shaped the thought patterns not only of the tsar and the imperial family but also of the political and social elite, and set the parameters of compromise that so constrained the policies of imperial Russia.

Richard Wortman (PhD University of Chicago) is James Bryce Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia University. He has also taught at the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD, and at Princeton University. His two-volume study Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy (1995-2000), published by Princeton University Press, is devoted to the role of imagery and representation in the exercise of monarchical power in Russia. An abridged one-volume edition, Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy from Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II, was published in 2006.