Ethno-religious Structure of the Imperial Court during the Reign of Emperor Nicholas II

Stanislav Bogdanov

Abstract


The article is devoted to the national and religious structure of the Court of Emperor Nicholas II (1894–1917). Due to the peculiarities of the state system, the Institute of the Court was an integral part of the government apparatus, and its members were the most elite group of the society in the Russian Empire of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. Summarizing of the personal data of 2,341 courtiers, which were identified in the course of the research in the funds of the structural parts of the Ministry of the Imperial court and other state institutions and departments, made it possible to create an ethnic and religious portrait of the ruling elite of the last Kingdom. The analysis of the processes of incorporation and ex-corporation of the members of the court staff demonstrates models of interaction between the Crown and local elites. Most of the archival materials used in the research are being put into scientific circulation for the first time.

Keywords


the Russian Imperial Court; court officials; the bureaucratic elite; the Russian Empire; nationality; nobility

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/rh.2020.49.359-380
Date of publication: 2020-12-21 13:06:02
Date of submission: 2019-04-15 16:34:15


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