• Episode 16: Insulting the Tsar. The Tale of Vasilii Zverev

  • Sep 7 2023
  • Durée: 25 min
  • Podcast

Episode 16: Insulting the Tsar. The Tale of Vasilii Zverev

  • Résumé

  • In this episode, we examine the history of lèse-majesté (insulting the honour of the tsar, his family, and his image) in imperial Russia through the story of Vasilii Zverev, an unfortunate factory worker who took the tsar's name in vain during a heated quarrel in 1908. Tracing the history of these crimes back to the early eighteenth century, we ask what these affronts to imperial virtue tell us about the people of the empire, the state that so harshly prosecuted these crimes, and popular conceptions of monarchical government.

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