EPISODE · Jun 25, 2025 · 43 MIN
Dr Andrey V. Ivanov - Birth of an Empire: Feofan Prokopovych and the Metamorphosis of Petrine Russia
from Loughborough Institute of Advanced Studies Podcast · host Loughborough IAS
IAS Residential Fellow Dr Andrey V. Ivanov delivers a seminar on their research - What is an empire? Prior to 1721, the Latin title of “imperator” belonged exclusively to the Western, Eastern or Holy Roman political entities This monopoly ended with the Petrine proclamation of the world’s first non-Roman imperium, and later, with similar proclamations by Napoleonic France, Iturbide’s Mexico, Braganza Brazil, and Wilhelmine Germany. “Empire” lost its narrow legal connotation, acquiring broader multivalent meanings. But it was Ukrainian archbishop Feofan Prokopovych (1677-1736), who initiated the concepts that got us to this point. An erudite polymath, Feofan served as the chief ideologist of first, Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Mazepa, and then, Peter I. As the seminar will demonstrate, forging the new empire was a direct product of the archbishop’s versatile scholarly breadth. Prokopovych godfathered the empire’s birth through an interdisciplinary endeavor that engaged with the political theories of the early European Enlightenment, Boylean physics, Holy Roman imperial jurisprudence, and Lutheran theology. For more information about the IAS, please visit - https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias
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