Browsing Duke Faculty Articles by Duke-affiliated Author "Zitser, Ernest"

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For love and Fatherland: Political Clientage and the Origins of Russia’s First Female Order of Chivalry

Zitser, Ernest (Éditions de l’EHESS, 2011)

This article describes the origins and political significance of the Order of St. Catherine, or Deliverance: the second-oldest knightly order in the system of honors introduced during the reign of Peter I, the first Russian ...
A Full-Frontal History of the Romanov Dynasty: Pictorial 'Political Pornography' in Pre-Reform Russia

Zitser, Ernest (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-10)

This profusely illustrated article expands the chronological and evidentiary basis of Boris Kolonitskii's argument about the role of scurrilous rumors and sexual innuendo in the desacralization of the Russian monarchy and ...
The Vita of Prince Boris Ivanovich "Korybut"-Kurakin: Personal Life-Writing and Aristocratic Self-Fashioning at the Court of Peter the Great

Zitser, Ernest (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011)

This article argues that the autobiographical "Vita del Principe Boris Korybut-Kurakin de la Familia de Polonia et Litoania," an astrologically-inflected, macaronic, personal chronicle of the life of one of the leading ...