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

"In this 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 rested on a fun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zitser, Ernest A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Naryshkin restoration
  • An unconsecrated company
  • Apostles and apostates
  • Unholy matrimony
  • Fathering the Fatherland