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Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality (Russian: Правосла́вие, самодержа́вие, наро́дность; transliterated: Pravoslávie, samoderzhávie, naródnost'), also known as Official Nationalism,[1][2] was the dominant Imperial ideological doctrine of Russian Emperor Nicholas I. The doctrine sought Imperial unity under Orthodox Christianity and the absolute authority of the Emperor, while suppressing ideas deemed destructive to that unity. It followed a broader European reactionary trend that sought to restore and defend political institutions that were overthrown in the Napoleonic Wars.[3]
"The Triad" of Official Nationality was originally proposed by Minister of Education Sergey Uvarov in his April 2, 1833,[4] circular letter to subordinate educators.[5] It was soon embraced by Nicholas and his establishment and gained wide public recognition, vocally supported by intellectuals like Mikhail Pogodin,[6] Fyodor Tyutchev,[7] and Nikolai Gogol.[7]
Critics of the policy saw this principle as a call for Russification. Yet the very fact of its existence, being Russia's first statewide political ideology since the 16th century,[5] indicated the nation's brewing transition to modernity.[8]
- ^ Riasanovsky, p. 132
- ^ Nationality in this context starts with a capital letter to differentiate it from nationality/narodnost as one of its three parts
- ^ Riasanovsky, p.133
- ^ Date as in Riasanovsky, p. 132
- ^ a b Hosking, p. 146
- ^ Riasanovsky, pp. 138–39
- ^ a b Riasanovsky, p. 135
- ^ Hoffmann, Kotsonis, p. 54
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