title: «For a truly stable, secure, and prosperous… Fatherland»: the search for a resolution to 1741 accession crisis in Russia
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metadata.value: Lystcova, Anastasiya S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-08-21T09:10:29Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-08-21T09:10:29Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu19.2017.105
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/7091
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article is devoted to the events that took place in October–November of 1741 which were
  connected with the attempts of a number of dignitaries to work out the legislative mechanism of accession
  within the ruling family in order to avoid a possible interregnum. The active participants of the discussions
  were Regent Anna Leopoldovna, cabinet ministers A. I. Osterman and M. G. Golovkin, the first member of the
  Synod Archbishop of Novgorod Ambrose, as well as a member of the Economy Collegium I. N. Temiriazev
  and the secretary of the Foreign Affairs Collegium A. Poznyakov. As a rule, in historiography these events
  are deal with the court intrigues. At the same time the surviving documents are of special interest as sources
  of the political culture of the XVIIIth century Russian nobility. The analysis of documents (opinions and drafts
  of persons which are published in this article) allows us to conclude that the positions and preferences of
  their authors can not be explained simply by court conjuncture. They sought to solve the problem within the
  framework of the actual legislation. The authors showed themselves as a supporters of the «legal monarchy»
  but not voluntary decisions even if it was sanctified by the name of the sovereign. Also these events showed
  that representatives of the ignoble metropolitan nobility had a chance to express themselves and even to
  influence the creation of the fundamental law of the monarchy. Although the coming to the power of Elizabeth
  Petrovna did not allow this projects to be realized and their opinions hadn’t significant impact on the history
  of the imperial legislation, these documents testify to certain successes in the development of secular political
  culture in post-Petrine Russia.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This article was prepared within the framework of the state project of the Ministry of Education and Science of
  the Russian Federation No. 33.8064.2017/8.9 «Communicative fields in modern Russian innovation: genesis,
  function, and transformation» (Laboratory for the Study of Primary Sources, Ural Federal University)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Issue 1(21)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Anna Leopoldovna
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: fundamental law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: succession law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: A. I. Osterman
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: M. G. Golovkin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the European political culture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of the XVIIIth century Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: «For a truly stable, secure, and prosperous… Fatherland»: the search for a resolution to 1741 accession crisis in Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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