The Russian Empire 1450–1801

those that did, or that observed cross processions and other rituals, were exposed to a dynamic message about faith—one that pro ...

and convents for lax discipline and sexual misbehavior by monks and nuns. The council directed particular animus against folk be ...

While one group was pursuing moral reform, a second, represented primarily by Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich, his close associate F. ...

rebuffed by bishops jealous of their power. Even so, in Russia many in the laity rebelled at these reforms, precisely because th ...

had come to an end. Tsar and patriarch were declared Antichrist, an easy claim to maintain once Peter I introduced European cult ...

Russian ethnographers in the nineteenth century indeed found animist and pagan beliefs and practices widespread among titular Or ...

their songs, dancing bears, and quasi-spiritual authority (minstrels were believed to ward off evil spirits from wedding process ...

men, in contrast to most early modern European and American cases; as Valerie Kivelson argues, this might be explained by the te ...

“CHRISTIANIZATION WITHOUT CONVERSION” Afinal word might be said about the relationship of the Orthodox Church to other religions ...

missionary Church, and state policy of allowing religious and cultural differences gave the empire stability. ***** On the conce ...

Valerie Kivelson has done fundamental work on magic and witchcraft prosecution in Russia:“Male Witches and Gendered Categories i ...

PART III THE CENTURY OF EMPIRE: RUSSIA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...

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13 Imperial Imaginary and the Political Center To stay viable, empires must stay dynamic. They must regularly renegotiate their ...

Figure 13.1Ukrainian-trained engravers brought baroque book illustration to Moscow in the second half of the seventeenth century ...

The messages that Kyiv-educated clerics preached to the court elite from mid- seventeenth century reflected the integration of c ...

to improve social welfare, state power, and social discipline. Such rulers pursued cameralist and mercantilist policies to impro ...

ideology became the martial power of Mars and the tempering justice, wisdom, and culture (as well as bravery) of Minerva; their ...

Figure 13.2 Peter I filled the garden alongside his Summer Palace with statuary symbolic of classical virtues and skills; here A ...

Figure 13.3 This modern engraving of a 1672 portrait of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich from the “Tituliarnik ”(a collection of portra ...