The Winter Palace and the people : staging and consuming Russia's monarchy, 1754-1917 / Susan P. McCaffray.

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McCaffray, Susan Purves [author.]

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9781609092474
1609092473
9781501758003
1501758004

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Winter Palace and the people.DDC classification:

947.09 23 22

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DK557 .M33 2018eb

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Contents:

Part I.A new stage for the theater of monarchy: 1. "A different winter palace" -- 2. A palace made of wood and bricks -- 3. A new city center -- 4. Staging monarchy -- Part II. Enacting urban monarchy: 5. Palace of patriotism -- 6. The palace household and its master -- 7. Palace of culture -- Part III. The audience takes the stage: 8. Heirs -- 9. To the palace.

Summary: "In the face of a changing social landscape in their rapidly growing nineteenth-century capital, Russian monarchs reoriented their display of imperial and national representation away from courtiers and toward the urban public. When attacked at mid-century, monarchs retreated from the palace. As they receded, the public claimed the square and the artistic treasures in the Imperial Hermitage before claiming the palace itself. By 1917, the Winter Palace had come to be the essential stage for representing not just monarchy, but the civic life of the empire-nation. What was cataclysmic for the monarchy presented to those who staffed the palace and Hermitage not a disaster, but a new mission, as a public space created jointly by monarch and city passed from the one to the other. This insightful study will appeal to scholars of Russia and general readers interested in Russian history."--Amazon

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.

"In the face of a changing social landscape in their rapidly growing nineteenth-century capital, Russian monarchs reoriented their display of imperial and national representation away from courtiers and toward the urban public. When attacked at mid-century, monarchs retreated from the palace. As they receded, the public claimed the square and the artistic treasures in the Imperial Hermitage before claiming the palace itself. By 1917, the Winter Palace had come to be the essential stage for representing not just monarchy, but the civic life of the empire-nation. What was cataclysmic for the monarchy presented to those who staffed the palace and Hermitage not a disaster, but a new mission, as a public space created jointly by monarch and city passed from the one to the other. This insightful study will appeal to scholars of Russia and general readers interested in Russian history."--Amazon

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