Tragic Eroticism. Images of the Imperial Family during the First World War

The emperor and members of his family had to arouse folk love with their actions. This was the carefully thought out rituals of royal trips and awarding ceremonies, official speeches and informal meetings, widely spreading portraits and patriotic poems. During the First World War, the awakening of folk love became the most important element of the monarchical-patriotic mobilization of Russian society. B.I. Kolonitsky studies how the members of the imperial family tried to increase their popularity - Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra Fedorovna, the Supreme Commander -in -Chief of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, the Dowager Empress Maria Fedorovna.
The author explores the perception of the images of the Romanovs. Among the numerous sources on the basis of which the book is written - petitions, diaries and letters of contemporaries, criminal cases against people accused of in absentia insulting members of the royal family.
3rd edition