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2012

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'A Programme for the Reign': Press, Propaganda and Public Opinion at Russia's Last Coronation

Russia's last coronation took place in Moscow in May 1896. To the click of camera shutters, the rattle of telegraphs and the whirring of the earliest cine machines, the twenty-eight-year-old Nicholas II crowned himself as absolute autocrat, inheritor of the spiritual-political legacy of Byzantium. But the world-wide publicity Nicholas sought...

King, Greg ; Ashton, Janet