The book examines a series of ideological models that were put forward as the state ideology of the Russian Empire during the reigns of Catherine, Alexander and Nicholas: the “Greek project” of Catherine - Potemkin, the concept of “Holy Rus'”, the plan of the Holy Alliance of Monarchs, the doctrine of “Orthodoxy - autocracy - nationality” ". These attempts at national-state self-identification were carried out largely based on the experience of poetic reflection about Russia accumulated in those years by the authors of odes, poems, tragedies, and historical novels. Contents: From the author 6 LITERATURE AND IDEOLOGY 7 Chapter I. RUSSIANS AS GREEKS “Greek Project” of Catherine II and Russian Ola of the 1760-1770s 31Chapter II. THE IMAGE OF THE ENEMY Od V.P. Petrov “To conclude with the Ottoman Port of Peace” and the emergence of the mythology of the worldwide conspiracy against Russia 65Chapter III. EDEN IN TAURIDE "Crimean myth" in Russian culture of the 1780s and 1790s 95Chapter IV. EDEN IN THE TAURIDE GARDEN Potemkin's latest project 123Chapter V. PEOPLE'S WAR Events of the Time of Troubles in Russian literature 1806 1807 157 Chapter VI. THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE The fall of M. M. Speransky and the mythology of treason in the public literary consciousness of 1809-1812 187Chapter VII. WAR AND HALF THE WORLDThe nature and goals of the war of 1812-1814 in the interpretation of A. S. Shishkov and Archimandrite Philaret 239Chapter VIII. SACRED UNIONSMessage to “Emperor Alexander” by V. A. Zhukovsky and the ideology of Christian universalism 267Chapter IX. “THE STAR OF THE EAST” The Holy Alliance and European Mysticism 297 Chapter X. THE TREASURED TRIADMemorandum of S. S. Uvarov in 1832 and the emergence of the doctrine of “Orthodoxy - autocracy - nationality” 337List of abbreviations 374Sources and literature 376