Хозяин земли русской: Петр I в восприятии великих князей Николая и Александра Александровичей

Ф. И. Мелентьев

doi:10.15826/qr.2025.4.1032

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Хозяин земли русской: Петр I в восприятии великих князей Николая и Александра Александровичей

Quaestio Rossica. 2025. Т. 13. № 4. С. 1452–1466.

Melentev F. I.

This article explores the perspectives on Russian history held by the eldest sons of Emperor Alexander II, with a focus on their attitudes toward the image of Emperor Peter I. Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich (1843–1865), who passed away at a young age, and Grand Prince Alexander Alexandrovich (1845–1894), who later became Emperor Alexander III, were raised during the period of the Great Reforms. During this time, discussions about Emperor Peter I gained a significant socio-political dimension. Therefore, the attitude of the grand princes towards the first Russian emperor could testify to their views on the development of the Russian Empire. It is unsurprising that historiography often contrasts Emperor Alexander III with Emperor Peter I, as the reign of the “peacemaker tsar” was marked by a deliberate cultivation of the ideology that Grand Princes Alexander Alexandrovich and Nikolai Alexandrovich were adherents of the official cult of Russia's first emperor, and that Alexander Alexandrovich's allegiance to this tradition persisted even after his accession as Emperor Alexander III. The article draws upon materials from lecture courses by professors S. M. Solovyov and K. P. Pobedonostsev of Imperial Moscow University, K. N. Bestuzhev-Ryumin of Imperial St Petersburg University, and N. Kh. Bunge of Imperial St Vladimir University, who gave lectures to the grand princes in different years. Additionally, the author cites correspondence between the grand princes and the diary of Tsarevich Alexander Alexandrovich, as well as excerpts from contemporaneous memoirs; the article also reconstructs the reading circle of Emperor Alexander II's elder sons. The study is based on an analysis of unpublished archival documents stored in federal archives (GARF and RGIA), manuscript departments of national libraries (RSL and RNL), and the manuscript department of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Research target: History and Archeology

Keywords: Петр I историческая память Peter I С.М. Соловьев Alexander III Александр III цесаревич Николай Александрович (1843–1865) historical memory Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich N.G. Ustryalov S.M. Solovyov Н.Г. Устрялов

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War and Post-War Peace in the Russian Empire and the USSR (2025)

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Nikolay Sarkisyan, Revolutionary Russia 2025 Vol. 38 No. 1 P. 1–23

This article examines the emergence and evolution of revolutionary museology in Imperial Russia between 1901 and 1917, addressing a previously understudied aspect of revolutionary culture. By analysing four successive attempts to establish revolutionary museums – the Russian Museum in Geneva (1901–1902), Maxim Gorky’s initiative on Capri (1912–1913), Vladimir Burtsev’s various projects, and the Petrograd House ...

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Вьетнамские исследования

ИДВ РАН, 2026.

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Added: October 12, 2026

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Dadykina M., Известия Российской академии образования 2026 Т. 2 № 74 С. 50–65

In modern economic law, the concept of "business entity" refers to an individual or legal entity (or association) en- gaged in economic activity for profit. Since the concept of a legal entity in Russia only fully developed in the late 18th century, the use of this term in the context of the Russian economy of ...

Added: October 12, 2026

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Kanaev A. A., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2026 № 3(74) С. 159–168

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Added: October 10, 2026

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Seleznev M., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2026 Vol. 3 No. 86 P. 589–592

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Added: October 9, 2026

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Popov A., Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2025 Vol. 95 No. 6 P. 689–699

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Rezvykh P. V., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Философия 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 127–143

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Added: October 7, 2026

The Gulag as a Soviet Military Resource: Mobilization through Dismantlement

Khlevniuk O. V., Journal of Slavic Military Studies 2026 Vol. 39 No. 3 P. 447–466

The Gulag as a system of terror and forced labor was the cornerstone of Soviet mobilization efforts in the 1930s. Paradoxically, during the war with Nazi Germany, the Gulag’s capacities and economic significance did not grow, but in fact declined, contrary to what one would expect. The massive use of prisoners as a source for replenishing the army and the huge ...

Added: October 7, 2026

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Added: October 5, 2026

The Magic Ruble: The Pragmatic Origins of Socialist Monetary Integration

Popov A., Pivovarov N. Y., Russian Review 2026 Vol. 85 No. 4 P. 461–477

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This collection presents papers from the 17th All-Russian Scientific Conference (2026), attended by staff and students from Russian higher education institutions, school teachers, and professionals from libraries and archives engaged in research on national history and historiography. ...

Added: October 5, 2026

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Вебер М., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 318–353

In the concluding part of the Second Anti-Critique (1910), Max Weber summarizes the substantive findings of his own contributions to the debate with the historian Felix Rachfahl. In doing so, he uses the response to his relentless critic as an opportunity to articulate once again, in an explicit manner and for both his own benefit and that of the ...

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Kamenskii A. B., Екатеринбург: Издательство Уральского университета, 2026.

This volume has been prepared to mark the anniversary of the distinguished Ural scholar Dmitry Alekseyevich Redin. It presents research and published source texts contributed by Dmitry Alekseyevich’s colleagues, friends, and students. The diverse range of studies—covering various aspects of Russian social history from the late 16th through the 18th century, as well as issues ...

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Kamenskii A. B., Quaestio Rossica 2026 Т. 14 № 3 С. 939–959

This article examines one of the significant figures in the system of governance of Russia during the reign of Catherine II: Prince Alexander Alekseevich Vyazemsky, Prosecutor General of the Senate, who held this post for approximately thirty years. During this period, the scope of his activities continually expanded to encompass the administration of finances; various construction ...

Added: October 3, 2026

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Grishina D., Исаева В. М., Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies 2026 Vol. 2 No. 3 P. 47–64

The second half of the nineteenth century became a time of many dramatic events on the Korean peninsula. With opening the country to trade and diplomacy with Westernized (Japan) or Western (USA, France, Great Britain) countries led to a division within Korean society, since the 1880s Chosŏn (Korea) has entered the age of political and ...

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Grigoreva M., Balakina Y. V., Научный результат. Серия: Социальные и гуманитарные исследования 2026 Т. 12 № 3 С. 100–112

In the context of intense international migration and increasing ethnocultural diversity, the integration of migrants has become an important issue for public policy. While existing research primarily focuses on the socio-economic and legal dimensions of integration, less attention has been paid to the mechanisms through which migrants develop a sense of belonging to the host ...

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Ромашова М. В., Клоц А., Антропологический форум 2021 № 50 С. 169–199

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Bondarenko D. M., Диалог со временем 2026 № 95 С. 36–49

The article explores contemporary African Americans’ perspectives on the Revolution and its legacy, and in particular their understanding of the social, political, and cultural foundations of their country laid during that era and the results achieved on those foundations, both for American society as a whole and for its Black community. Assessments of the past, ...

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Киселев М. А., Кочегаров К. А., Лазарев Я. А., Екатеринбург: Издательство Уральского университета, 2022.

Монография посвящена феномену неформальных связей в государственном управлении раннего Нового времени на материалах непростой истории взаимоотношений старшины Гетманской Украины с правящей элитой России в 1700–1760-е гг. В исследовательской части издания анализируется роль неформальных отношений при формировании украинской политики российского правительства и эволюции управления Гетманщиной на протяжении более шести десятилетий, начиная с гетманства И. С. Мазепы ...

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Гуськов А. Г., Кочегаров К. А., Шамин С. М., Русское слово, 2022.

This collective monograph is the first scholarly study of the Russo-Turkish War of 1686– 1700, the least-known and most-protracted of Russia’s wars against the Sublime Porte and the Crimean khanate. The authors’ systematic investigation of the course of military events during the entirety of this 14-year-long conflict interweaves analyses of the largest and best studied ...

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Zaretsky Y., Курукин И. В., СПб.: Европейский дом, 2026.

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Керимов Р. Э., Новое прошлое 2026 № 1 С. 148–162

The arrest of East German writer and publishing director Günter Hofé at the 1963 Frankfurt Book Fair became a unique episode of ideological confrontation between East and West Germany. Hofé is primarily known for his documentary-fiction trilogy about World War II, in which he actively participated as a Wehrmacht soldier. The analysis of the writer’s ...

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