Dangerous Dreams in 18th Century Russia: Oneiric Inquiries in the Archive of the Secret

• In Event: Empire, Autocracy, and Subjecthood in the 18th Century

Abstract

The paper examines the discursive status of those dream narratives in the 18th-century
Russian Empire, which were considered as political crimes against the supreme authority. It relies
on descriptions of these dreams from the archives of the Preobrazhensky Office and the Secret
Chancellery.

Author

• Ekaterina Maichak, Independent Scholar