Imperial Russia
Outline #12
Professor Knight

Russia under Nicholas I.

I.  Nicholas and his Men
	Trials of the Decembrists
	Kochubei Committee (Investigates materials from trials)
	His Majesty’s Chancery
		Second Section 
			Speransky’s Codification of the Law
		Third Section
			Secret Police
	Alexander Benckendorff
	Pavel Kiselov--Ministry of State Domains
		Reform of State Peasants
	Lev Perovskii—Ministry of Internal Affairs
	Sergei Uvarov—Ministry of Education
	“Official Nationality”—Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality

II.  Russian Culture under Nicholas
	Paradox:  “Icy Grip of Reaction” but also “Golden Age of Russian Literature”
	Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
		Eugene Onegin, The Bronze Horseman
	Nature of Repression
		Alexander Nikitenko (Professor, Censor)
		Osip Bodianskii (Publisher of Giles Fletcher’s account of Ivan IV)
		Aesopian Language
		Andrei Zablotskii-Desiatovskii
			“On the Fluctuation of Grain Prices in Russia”

III.  Birth of the Intelligentsia
	Teleology—the path to 1917
	Polozhaev—student persecuted for writing song
	German Philosophy
		Schelling, Hegel 
		“World Historical Process”
		“The Nation as an Organism”
		“National Mission”
	Petr Chaadaev—“Philosophical Letters (published 1836)
	Westernizers
		State School of Historiography
			Konstantin Kavelin, Sergei Solov’ev, Boris Chicherin
	Slavophiles
		Folklore studies—Konstantin Aksakov, Petr Kireevskiii
		Theology—Alexander Khomiakov, Ivan Kireevskii