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In the third book on the historiosophy of Russian statehood, the outstanding Russian historian Alexander Bokhanov offers readers a new look at the Christian empire, which appears in its essential, ontological expression as an universal mission, sent to the Almighty of the human family.
It was this intention that sought to embody the Orthodox tsarist empire since its constitution in the 16th century. According to the author’s conclusion, there are two initial semantic models that determine the image and meaning of any empire: the Pervimatian model (the Caesary Empire) and the Secondary, the matrix for which was the second Rome - Constantinople. Although there was an external similarity between them, it is substantial this is various historical and cultural phenomena. In the first case, the empire is a world broadcast of power and strength (Translatio Imperia), and in the second - the broadcast of faith (Translatio Confessionis) Orthodox Russia, being an empire-kingdom, remained in this sense a unique education for the last centuries of world history. And although under Peter I, the kingdom was titially transformed into the empire, perceiving many norms and techniques of the Western European political tradition, dating back to the pagan Roman Empire, but the spiritual dominant was preserved in it until the fall of the monarchy in 1917.
The work of A. N. Bokhanov is the first experience of a systemic Orthodox -state approach to the problem of the Empire in general and the Russian Empire in particular
It was this intention that sought to embody the Orthodox tsarist empire since its constitution in the 16th century. According to the author’s conclusion, there are two initial semantic models that determine the image and meaning of any empire: the Pervimatian model (the Caesary Empire) and the Secondary, the matrix for which was the second Rome - Constantinople. Although there was an external similarity between them, it is substantial this is various historical and cultural phenomena. In the first case, the empire is a world broadcast of power and strength (Translatio Imperia), and in the second - the broadcast of faith (Translatio Confessionis) Orthodox Russia, being an empire-kingdom, remained in this sense a unique education for the last centuries of world history. And although under Peter I, the kingdom was titially transformed into the empire, perceiving many norms and techniques of the Western European political tradition, dating back to the pagan Roman Empire, but the spiritual dominant was preserved in it until the fall of the monarchy in 1917.
The work of A. N. Bokhanov is the first experience of a systemic Orthodox -state approach to the problem of the Empire in general and the Russian Empire in particular
Author:
Author:Alexander Bokhanov
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:Culture
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-392-38199-9
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