Interests of the state and image of the country in manifestos of the Russian monarchs
Based on the analysis of manifestos issued by Russian monarchs in the period from the beginning of 1740s to the middle of 1910s, the article reveals the emperors’ ideas about the national interests and priorities of the country’s development, about the main directions of its domestic and foreign policy in a specific historical epoch, about the tasks in a particular area of society. Special attention is paid to the image of the past Russia, to which the Russian monarchs resorted to express their vision of the ways of its development in the present and future.