| Titre | Pierre le Grand, lecteur de la Stepennaja kniga : à la recherche de précédents historiques à la déchéance du tsarévitch Alexis | |
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| Auteur | Pierre Gonneau | |
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Revue | Revue des Etudes Slaves |
| Numéro | Vol. 76, no 1, 2005 Liturgie et histoire dans l'Église russe médiévale | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Liturgie et histoire dans l'Église russe médiévale : le cycle des heures et les degrés de l'Échelle sainte, dossier préparé par Pierre Gonneau |
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| Page | 51-59 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Peter the Great Reads the Stepennaya Kniga in Search of Historical Justifications for the Deposition of Tsarevitch Alexei
Following the arrest and death of his eldest son Aleksej, Peter the Great transformed the raies of succession to the Russian throne. The ukases he published between 1718 and 1722 are based on references to the Grand Prince of Moscow Ivan III, who changed the order of succession twice, in 1498 and 1502, so as to allow the crown to be bestowed on the heir he thought the most able. Although Peter the Great explicitly refers to the Stepennaja kniga and indeed quotes it, a comparison of his edicts with the 16th Century text shows that the Stepennaja kniga was not his only source. The Emperor also borrowed from the Nikon Chronicle or other 16th С. annals which are textologically close to this chronicle. But he did not merely borrow excerpts from these sources, he also modernized their terminology and edited them so that their idea of tsardom would coincide with his own early eighteenth century needs. This experiment encouraged him to order that early Russian chronicles be collected, copied and stored in a library (Febr. 1722). Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/slave_0080-2557_2005_num_76_1_7212 |
