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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Russian History</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Russian History</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: История России</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-8674</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-8690</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">31143</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-8674-2022-21-2-258-274</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>ARTICLES</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>СТАТЬИ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Political Theology of Baroque Ruler: The Case of the Coronation Book of Empress Elizabeth of Russia</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Политическая теология правителя эпохи барокко: пример из коронационной книги императрицы Елизаветы Петровны</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Hanovs</surname><given-names>Deniss</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Хановс</surname><given-names>Денис</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">Dr. art., Professor</bio><bio xml:lang="ru">д-р гуманитарных наук, профессор</bio><email>deniss.hanovs@rsu.lv</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2367-2398</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Teraudkalns</surname><given-names>Valdis</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Тераудкалнс</surname><given-names>Валдис</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Ph.D. in theol., Professor of church history and history of religions</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>канд. теологических наук, профессор</p></bio><email>valdis.teraudkalns@lu.lv</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Latvian Academy of Arts</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Латвийская академия художеств</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of Latvia</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Латвийский университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-06-02" publication-format="electronic"><day>02</day><month>06</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>21</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Russia and the Baltics in the 20th Century</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Россия и Прибалтика в XX веке</issue-title><fpage>258</fpage><lpage>274</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-06-02"><day>02</day><month>06</month><year>2022</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2022, Hanovs D., Teraudkalns V.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2022, Хановс Д., Тераудкалнс В.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Hanovs D., Teraudkalns V.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Хановс Д., Тераудкалнс В.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/russian-history/article/view/31143">https://journals.rudn.ru/russian-history/article/view/31143</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The study analyses the political theology and imagery of a female Russian ruler in the first half of the 18th century in the context of the European political discourses on feminine rulers during the baroque period. The coronation ritual of Empress Elizabeth (ruled 1741-1761, crowned 25 April 1742) reflected in the coronation book (1744) illustrates the transition of European images of a baroque feminine ruler into the semiotics of westernized Russian absolutism. Elizabeth appears in the court media (sermons, engravings in the coronation book, poems, etc.) as the natural, God-given mother of all Russians, saving Orthodoxy from the political chaos of the previous rule, combining both masculine and feminine images of a ruler. The image of Elizabeth in the sermon by Archbishop of Novgorod Ambrosii illustrates a Russian variation of the political liturgy of absolutist culture in the 18th century.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">В исследовании анализируются политическая теология и образность русской правительницы первой половины XVIII века в контексте европейских политических дискурсов о правительницах эпохи барокко. Ритуал коронации императрицы Елизаветы Петровны (годы правления 1741-1761, была коронована 25 апреля 1742 г.), отраженный в коронационной книге (1744 г.), показывает переход европейских образов правительницы эпохи барокко в семиотику вестернизированного русского абсолютизма. Елизавета предстает в придворных материалах (проповедях, гравюрах в коронационной книге, стихах и др.) как ниспосланная Богом мать всех русских, спасающая Православие от политического хаоса прежнего правления, сочетающая в себе как мужской, так и женский образы правителя. Образ Елизаветы в проповеди архиепископа Новгородского Амвросия иллюстрирует русский вариант политической литургии культуры абсолютизма XVIII века.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>absolutism</kwd><kwd>baroque</kwd><kwd>mythology</kwd><kwd>representation</kwd><kwd>theatricality</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>абсолютизм</kwd><kwd>барокко</kwd><kwd>мифология</kwd><kwd>репрезентация</kwd><kwd>театральность</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Bachmann-Medick, Doris. Neuorientierungen in den Kulturwissenschaften. Hamburg: Rowohlts Enzyklopädie, 2007.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Baehr, Stephen Lessing. The Paradise Myth in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Utopian Patterns in Early Secular Russian Literature and Culture. 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