From the Author / Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. From the Author / Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Russians as Greeks: Catherine II’s “Greek Project” and the Russian Ode of the 1760s–70s 24
7. 2. The Image of the Enemy: V. P. Petrov’s “Ode on the Conclusion of Peace with the Ottoman Porte” and the Emergence of the Mythology of a Global Conspiracy against Russia 61
8. 3. Eden in Taurus: The “Crimean Myth” in Russian Culture of the 1780s–90s 92
9. 4. Eden in the Tauride Palace: Potemkin’s Last Project 121
10. 5. The People’s War: The Time of Troubles in Russian Literature, 1806–1807 155
11. 6. Enemy of the People: M. M. Speranskii’s Fall and the Mythology of Treason in Social and Literary Consciousness, 1809–1812 185
12. 7. War and Quasi Peace: The Character and Goal of the War in 1812–1814 in the Interpretation of A. S. Shishkov and Archimandrite Filaret 232
13. 8. Holy Alliances: V. A. Zhukovskii’s Epistle “To Emperor Alexander” and Christian Universalism 258
14. 9. “Star of the East”: The Holy Alliance and European Mysticism 288
15. 10. The Cherished Triad: S. S. Uvarov’s Memorandum of 1832 and the Development of the Doctrine “Orthodoxy—Autocracy—Nationality”. 325
16. Works Cited 359
17. Index 399