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🗓️ 22 November 2010
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0:00.0 | Welcome to a slap shot edition of the Russian rulers podcast. Today we're going to go over |
0:07.0 | Moskavite Thought and Literature. |
0:11.1 | In addition to the issue of the true faith, the issue of the proper form of government preoccupied certain Muscovite minds. |
0:18.0 | It concerned essentially the nature and the new role of autocracy. |
0:22.8 | And discussion of it continued the intellectual trend clearly observable in the reigns of |
0:27.8 | Ivan III and Vassily III. |
0:30.9 | Such publicists as Ivan Pervestov, who wrote in the middle of the 16th century, upheld the new power and authority of the Tsar. |
0:39.0 | While the events of the time of Troubles provided variations on this theme of proper government and seemed to offer |
0:46.0 | to the Russians unwanted political experience. |
0:49.7 | The most famous debate on the subject took place between Ivan the Terrible and Prince Andrew Kerbsky, and two letters from the SAR, and five from the fugitive |
0:58.3 | noblemen, written between 1564 and 1579. The Sovereign's brilliant letters strike the reader by the |
1:07.7 | sweep of their assertions and a grandiose tone. I've in the terrible believed in the divine foundation of autocracy and he declared that even if |
1:17.4 | he were a tyrant, Kibsky's only alternative as a Christian and a faithful subject remained patient suffering. |
1:25.0 | But Prince, on his part, proved to be stronger in his criticism of the SARS conduct and in personal andvective than in political theory. Yet his views too presented |
1:37.2 | a system of belief. They hearkened back to an |
1:45.0 | earlier order of things, when no great gulf separated the ruler from his chief |
1:45.3 | lieutenants, and when an aristocrat enjoyed more freedom and more respect |
1:50.6 | than Ivan the fourth wanted to follow. |
1:53.0 | In foreign relations, as in domestic matters, |
1:57.0 | Ivan the terrible and other Tsars reiterated the glory of autocracy |
2:02.0 | and demanded full respect for it. They considered the Polish |
2:06.0 | kings degraded because the latter had been put on their throne by others, and thus could not be |
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