title: State Council and the Political Crisis of the Interregnum
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metadata.value: Belousov, Mikhail S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-02-07T13:20:34Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-02-07T13:20:34Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Belousov M. S. State Council and the Political Crisis of the Interregnum. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 4, рp. 1078–1100. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.404 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.404
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39006
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article is devoted to the activities of the highest state body of the Russian Empire during
  the interregnum of 1825. The political crisis changed the institutional status of the State Council.
  His position in the system of power during this period was not based on legislative acts, it
  depended on the position of the time-honored Senate and was determined by the tasks of the
  plan for Nikolai Pavlovich’s coming to power. It is shown that during the meeting on November
  27, the members supported the initiative of Nicholas to swear allegiance to Constantine,
  but included in the official protocol an unacceptable formula of his abdication. Senate completely
  ignored the decision of the Council. This circumstance was perceived as normative and
  natural. The decisive meeting of the State Council took place on the night of December 13–14,
  but it is difficult to identify bureaucratic logic in this event. Nikolai gathered the members of
  the Council, read out a manifesto to them and, without requiring an oath, sent them home.
  For all the actors of these events, the key was the oath of the Senate. All this gives reason to
  conclude that the State Council was only the proscenium of the political struggle of the period
  of the interregnum, a theatrical performance that served for Nicholas as a source of information
  about the moods of the highest dignitaries. He made all the key decisions on his own,
  coordinating them only with his confidants, and implemented them through the decisions of
  the Senate.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 21-78-10052 “From the
  Cadiz Constitution to the Petersburg Uprising: Transfer of Discourses, Ideas, Emotions in the Biedermeier
  Era”.
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: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 67; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: State Council
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Senate
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: oath
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: interregnum
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: abdication
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Nicholas I
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Constantine
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: State Council and the Political Crisis of the Interregnum
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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