Orthodoxy,_Autocracy,_and

Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Populism

Together known as Official Nationality, Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality (Правосла́вие, самодержа́вие, и наро́дность, "Pravoslavie, Samoderzhavie, i Narodnost") were the guiding principles of public education in the Russian Empire, proposed by Russian Minister of Education Count Sergey Uvarov in his report to Nicholas I of Russia. The policy was adopted by Nicholas I in 1833. Critics of the policy saw Official Nationality as a means of Russification.

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Orthodoxy - Orthodox Christianity and protection of Russian Orthodox Church.
Autocracy - loyalty to the tsarist regime and House of Romanov.
Nationality - Narodnost has been translated as nationality, national spirit,¹ or populism.². Before its adoption by Nicholas I, narodnost was a central tenet of Russian Romantic writers, the Russian expression of a principle more often called Romantic nationalism.³

Notes

^ Hutchings, Stephen C. (2004). Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age: The Word as Image, Routledge. pp.86.
^ Thompson, Ewa M. (1991). The Search for Self-definition in Russian Literature, John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp.98.
^ O. I. Senkovskii and Romantic Empire

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