'Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule' is devoted to studies of the political culture of Russian monarchy and how it influenced various aspectsof Russian historical development such as law, representations of family, and concepts of nation and of empire. The articles in this book show how the narratives described in the author's two volume 'Scenarios of Power' guided monarchical rule and shaped the thought patterns not only of the tsar and the imperial family but of the political, social, and cultural elite through whom he ruled and set the parameters of compromise that so constrained the policies of imperial Russia.