The Transfigured Kingdom : : Sacred Parody and Charismatic Authority at the Court of Peter the Great / / Ernest A. Zitser.

In this richly comparative analysis of late Muscovite and early Imperial court culture, Ernest A. Zitser provides a corrective to the secular bias of the scholarly literature about the reforms of Peter the Great. Zitser demonstrates that the tsar's supposedly "secularizing" reforms re...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2017
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Studies of the Harriman Institute
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 10 b&w halftones, 3 figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Naryshkin Restoration
  • 2. An Unconsecrated Company
  • 3. Apostles and Apostates
  • 4. Unholy Matrimony
  • 5. Fathering the Fatherland
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1. Chronology
  • Appendix 2. Members of the Unholy Council
  • Bibliography
  • Index