Article

Imperial Loyalty between Law, Religion, and Nation: Old Believers' Appeals to the Russian State, 1825-1894

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Citation

Marsden T (2022) Imperial Loyalty between Law, Religion, and Nation: Old Believers' Appeals to the Russian State, 1825-1894. Ab Imperio, 2022 (2), pp. 117-146. https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0037

Abstract
It has been argued that the Russian Empire failed to integrate the core Russian population under a cohesive sense of national identity. This article explores popular responses to the nationalization process by examining changing ideas of imperial loyalty as they were expressed in the petitions, appeals, and loyal addresses of the Old Believers from the accession of Nicholas I in 1825 to the death of Alexander III in 1894. It finds that national discourse penetrated deep into popular society, but was met with ambivalence and did not provide a means to reimagine the population's relationship with the state.

Journal
Ab Imperio: Volume 2022, Issue 2

StatusPublished
FundersThe British Academy
Publication date31/12/2022
Publication date online08/09/2022
Date accepted by journal08/09/2022
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/35365
ISSN2166-4072
eISSN2164-9731

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Dr Thomas Marsden

Dr Thomas Marsden

Lecturer in European History, History

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