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Author Winning, Alexa von, author.

Title Intimate empire : the Mansurov family in Russia and the Orthodox East, 1855-1936 / Alexa von Winning
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022
©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 219 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (colour)
Series Oxford studies in modern European history
Oxford studies in modern European history.
Summary "After a humiliating defeat in the Crimean War, the Russian Empire struggled to reassert its position as a global power. A small noble family returned from the siege of Sevastopol and joined the rulers' efforts to advance Russian standing in the decades before 1917. Leaving Home tells the story of the Mansurovs, who were known to nineteenth-century observers as resourceful imperial agents and staunch supporters of Orthodoxy. In close interplay with scholarship and the media, they built churches and pilgrim hostels to increase Russian dominance within its borders and in the Ottoman Empire. They facilitated communication between the Russian Empire and the wider Orthodox world and expanded its institutional infrastructure in areas of religion and scholarship outside Russia. Some of the family's achievements stand to this day: the Russian complex in Jerusalem and an impressive Orthodox convent in Riga. When the Revolution came, they faced stigmatization as former nobles, believers, and monarchists. Impoverishment and arrests became part of their daily lives in Soviet Russia. Leaving Home is a study of the momentous role played by elite families in Russia's international involvement in the age of empire. It shows how three generations of a mobile noble family advanced the intertwined causes of the Russian Empire and Orthodoxy, using family resources and tools of intimacy. Women were crucial for the family's efforts, both behind the scenes and in public. Russia, Orthodoxy, and noble family life emerge as part of the European trans-imperial scene"--Publisher's description
Notes This edition also issued in print: 2022
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed February 24, 2023)
Subject Mansurov family
Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ -- History -- 19th century
Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ -- History -- 20th century
Nobility -- Russia -- Biography
Nobility -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Nobility.
SUBJECT Russia -- History -- 1801-1917 -- Biography
Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936 -- Biography
Subject Russia.
Soviet Union.
Genre/Form Biographies.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191927140
0191927147