HIST 246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Autocracy, Mikhail Glinka, Workforce Productivity
14 Jan 2017
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The autocracy: 1913 tercentenary of the romanov dynasty. May 1913, nicholas ii traveled down to a historic town, accompanied by his wife. Alexandra and his family, as well as a royal entourage, this was a voyage with a purpose. The royal family was returning to the birth place of the first romanov tsar, this was the 300th celebration of the dynasty. The people fused in one single feeling of worship of the monarch. The celebrations evoked a mystical reunion between the tsar and his people, conjured a vision of the country, before peter the great, peter had opened a window to the west. Petersburg was a self consciously a european city, in the. Tercentenary celebrations in 1913, nicholas figuratively turned his back on everything. Nicholas yearned to resurrect the country to before peter"s time. From the very first years of his reign, he had looked upon muscovy, and age of autocracy rule, no parliaments, community between tsar and people.
