Research seminar Boundaries of History "Political loyalty in the Russian Empire – allegiance or loyalty? A case of ‘people’s’ panegyrics to a monarch (1861-1884)"

June 16th, 18:30: Department of History and the Center for Historical Research HSE in Saint-Petersburg cordially invite you to the presentation by Prof. Mikhail Dolbilov (University of Maryland, College Park) "Political loyalty in the Russian Empire – allegiance or loyalty? A case of  ‘people’s’ panegyrics to a monarch (1861-1884)".

Mikhail Dolbilov has authored the Russian-language monograph, Russian Country, Foreign Faith: The Imperial Ethno-confessional Policies in Lithuania and Belarus under Alexander II (2010); along with Aleksei Miller, published the Russian-language volume The Western Borderlands of the Russian Empire (2006); along with Darius Staliunas, the Russian-language volume A Reverse Union: An Episode from the Relations between Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy in the Russian Empire, 1840-1873 (2010). He published a number of articles and book chapters in English, Russian and other languages on the 1861 emancipation of serfs; cultural mechanics of Russian emperors’ decision-making; Russian-Polish mutual perceptions in the 19th century; imperial attitudes and policies toward the Roman Catholic Church; and other subjects. 

His current book-length project focuses on the ways in which political loyalty was maintained, negotiated, expressed and experienced in imperial Russia, from the perspectives of cultural and political history and history of emotions.