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1	Courting the West : Nicholas I, cultural diplomacy and the State Hermitage Museum in 1852 Digout, Amy Erica. January 2006 (has links) The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg as a royal collection and cultural treasury reveals the aesthetic preferences of a nation that has always stood on the cultural and geographical periphery of Europe. Initially an imperial collection under Peter I, patrons of the Hermitage focused attention on collecting canonical European paintings and also emulating Western models of display. In this way, the Russian aristocracy superimposed itself on Europe's culture through the construction of a collection to rival its great European contemporaries. / The development of a standardized practice of display has widely been studied in relation to Western museums but similar attention has not been extended to the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. I argue that Nicholas was able to use objects of art and strategies of display to assert a greater role in the European state system of the mid-nineteenth century. While the supposed transparency conveyed by the collection's public opening was meant to make Russia seem less threatening to Western powers, in reality the yolk of autocracy was as tight as ever. Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)
2	Courting the West : Nicholas I, cultural diplomacy and the State Hermitage Museum in 1852 Digout, Amy Erica. January 2006 (has links) No description available. Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)
3	At the Foot of the Cross: A Biographical Portrait of Pyotr Yakovlevich Chaadaev Beard, Jacob D. 02 August 2017 (has links) No description available. History Russian History
4	The Circassian Thistle: Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy's 'Khadzhi Murat' and the Evolving Russian Empire" Souder, Eric Matthew 26 November 2014 (has links) No description available. Russian History Slavic Literature Slavic Studies History Literature Leo Tolstoy Tolstoy Khadzhi Murat Hadji Murat North Caucasus Chechnya Daghestan Russian Empire Russian Literature Censorship Literary Criticism Empire Nicholas I
5	Přemyslovští levobočci / Přemaslid bastards Mikeš, David January 2021 (has links) The diploma thesis deals with the topic of illegitimacy of the last Přemyslids. The main focus of the thesis is to outline the life and careers of illegitimate children of the last Přemyslid kings. The core of the thesis deals with illegitimacy in the Middle Ages. In this recpect, the author tries to compare the conditions at the Prague Přemyslid court with other European countries, taking into consideration the historical context of that time. Last but not least, the author tries to evaluate the position of illegitimate children in the medieval society. Key words: Přemyslids, illegitimacy, illegitimate child, Ottokar I of Bohemia., Ottokar II of Bohemia, Nicholas I Duke of Opava, Jan Volek, Wenceslaus II of Bohemia, Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, Guglielma of Milano, bastard

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