Tsar and God: And Other Essays in Russian Cultural Semiotics
Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov
Two leading scholars explain how Russians came to see the tsar as a sacred figure, from Muscovy to the age of Peter the Great. Essential reading on religion and power in Imperial Russia.
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