Permissions ... ix // Abbreviations ... xi // Introduction: Russian Monarchy and the Symbolic Sphere ... xiii // Part 1 // Russian Monarchy and Law // 1. Russian Monarchy and the Rule of Law: New Considerations // of the Court Reform of 1864 ... 3 // 2. The Representation of Dynasty and “Fundamental Laws” in the Evolution // of Russian Monarchy ... 33 // 3. Review of Anatolii Viktorovich Remnev, Samoderzhavnoe Pravitelstvo: // Komitét Ministrov v sisteme vysshego upravlenia Rossiiskoi imperii // (vtoraia polovina XIX—nachalo XX veka) ... 74 // Part 11 // Scenarios of Family and Nation // 4. The Russian Empress as Mother ... 89 // 5. The Russian Imperial Family as Symbol ... 106 // Pari III // Narratives of Monarch and Nation // 6. The Invention of Tradition and the Representation of Russian Monarchy .. 137 // 7. National Narratives in the Representation of Nineteenth-Century // Russian Monarchy ... 152 // 8. Moscow and Petersburg: The Problem of Political Center in Tsarist Russia, // 1881-1914 ... 170 // 9. Nicholas II and the Revolution of 1905 ... 199 // Part IV // Russian Monarchy and the Imperial State // 10. The Russian Empire and Russian Monarchy: The Problem // of Russian Nationalism ... // 11. The “Integrity” (Tselost ’) of the State in Imperial Russian Representation _ // 12. The Tsar and Empire: Representation of the Monarchy and Symbolic Integratic // in Imperial Russia ... // Richard S. Wortman: A Bibliography (1962-2013) by Ernest A. Zitser // Index