Peter III?s Relatives at Petersbourg Court
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.rcsi.science/0130-3864/article/view/259812" target="_blank" >https://journals.rcsi.science/0130-3864/article/view/259812</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/S0130386424030046" target="_blank" >10.31857/S0130386424030046</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Peter III?s Relatives at Petersbourg Court
Original language description
The author examines the political history of the eighteenth-century Russian Empire and its relations with members of the royal family from the Holy Roman Empire. Based on the study of unpublished sources, mainly in Austrian and Russian archives, as well as published Russian, British, and French sources, he presents a new interpretation of Peter III?s relations with members of the House of Holstein. The research aims to answer the following questions: What role did Peter IIIs ?German kinsmen? play at the St. Petersburg court and in the administrative system of the state? What impact did their actions have on the Russian elites perception of the Tsars rule? Did Peter IIIs personnel policy, which favoured the Holstein dynasty members for key positions in the state apparatus, differ from the previous practice of Russian monarchs? A detailed analysis of the sources eads to the following conclusions: Peter IIIs Holstein relatives exerted considerable influence on the policy of the St. Petersburg court, occupying key positions in the military and political establishment of the Russian Empire in the early 1760s. At the same time, most of them did not speak Russian and did not try to adapt to their new cultural environment. The behaviour of some Holsteinites, as well as the preferential treatment they received at the expense of members of the royal family and St. Petersburg nobles, caused an extremely negative reaction in Russian society, contributing to the growth of hatred towards the Germans. Peter IIIs decision to surround himself with relatives from Central Europe was reminiscent of the reign of Anna Ivanovna, whose closest confidants were of non-Russian origin. On the other hand, Anna Ivanovnas cronies came from different parts of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Novaâ i novejšaâ istoriâ
ISSN
0130-3864
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Volume of the periodical
68
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
RU - RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
41-52
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85212479638