Summary
Lav Tikhomirov: Monarchy
Lav Tikhomirov is considered by many to be the "spiritual father of the monarchist movement" in the Orthodox East. What de Maistre is to the West is probably Lav Tikhomirov to the East. Tikhomirov traces the development of the monarchical principle from Rome through Byzantium to Imperial Russia and Western Europe in 616 pages. This capital work is divided into four parts and over twenty chapters, among which are the General Foundations of the Monarchy, The Struggle of the Democratic and Monarchical Principles, The General Significance of the Monarchical Principle in Politics, What is the Church, The Fate of the Monarchical Principle, Byzantine Spirituality...
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