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The life of the imperial court, questions of the morality and the charity in the cultural policy of Elizabeth Petrovna
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-5-66-84
Abstract
The article is devoted to the cultural policy of the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. It analyzes the legislative acts regulating the life of the imperial court, first of all, as well as the issues of the morality and charity.
The circumstances of the coming to power of Elizabeth (the first coup in the history of Russia that overthrew the Emperor in the prime of life from the throne), the doubtfulness of her rights to the throne (the presence of two male heirs: Ivan Antonovich, the only man of the segnior branch of the Romanovs, and Elizabeth’s nephew, the son of her elder sister, who had more rights to the throne under the will of Catherine I) forced the Empress to organize a kind of propaganda campaign to legitimize her position.
Among other things, the cultural policy ofElizabethwas aimed at constructing an image of her as a truly Russian sovereign. The kinship of the Empress with Peter the Great was confirmed by the addressing with the patronymic, “by the proximity of blood”. The appeal to national traditions and underlined religiosity, the care for Christian morality, the charity of the disabled and needy people helped the Empress to distance herself from the so-called “German heritage” so alien to the Russians, and to receive additional dividends in the eyes of public opinion.
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Irina M. Chirskova,
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For citation: Chirskova I.M. The life of the imperial court, questions of the morality and the charity in the cultural policy of Elizabeth Petrovna. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2019;(5):66-84. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-5-66-84
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