The Russian Empire 1450–1801

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PART II THE MUSCOVITE EMPIRE THROUGH THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ...

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6 Broadcasting Legitimacy One of the most visible characteristics of early modern empire was its self- representation of legitim ...

example, Sunni sultans openly made alliances with SufiMuslims; they expected religious (kadi) judges around the realm to adminis ...

intensified. Tapping intotranslatio imperiilegitimacy, several claimed mythic foreign ancestries from Europe or the Horde. Dynas ...

nexus. The intent was to record God’s providential work on earth; in Russia, chronicles were written to inscribe Russian history ...

the Menology had broader distribution. But theIlluminated Chroniclewas never reproduced, never bound, and never taken from the K ...

called tsar...who are crowned with the crown of chastity and draped in the purple robe of justice.”Eulogies to grand princes in ...

education, manliness, innovation, or worldly achievements. Implicitly, the purpose of political power is to lead one’s people to ...

1551 Stoglav Church Council depict Ivan IV asking the assembled hierarchs of the Church to“speak in unanimity...assist me, all o ...

consulted boyars in decision making. Respect was ceremonially marked in ban- quets, where grand princes personally distributed c ...

protect his people from injustice, punish evil, and render true justice. In Muscovy people energetically used the court system; ...

presented collective petitions about social injustice. They expected action and often received it; a wave of collective petition ...

literacy, texts were less important than visual media—art and physical embodiment in ritual and the built environment. Religious ...

and participants of such ritual is not recorded, but the intent of such rituals in all settings was“communicative.”Their impact ...

benevolence and piety; Muscovite rulers founded and patronized monasteries as they traversed their realms (Mozhaisk, 1563; Peres ...

monastic ensembles, as in the Khutinskii Monastery in Novgorod (1515), the Novodevichii Convent in Moscow (1524), and the Trinit ...

with a predominantly vertical, rather than horizontal, silhouette. In some cases their facades were more orderly than the“Moscow ...

painting, and architecture, they created a decorative Stroganov style borrowing from the Moscow and Naryshkin baroques. Survivin ...