Index
1789–93
French Revolution, xxxii
1791
Saint-Domingue uprising, 14
1815
Congress of Vienna, 80
1833
slavery abolished in the British Empire, xxiii
1867
Great Exhibition in Paris, 18
interpretation of Maximilian’s execution in Dieterle’s Juarez (1938), 33
opening of the Suez Canal, 35
1871
foundation of the German Empire, 51
Franco-Prussian War, 51
proclamation of German Empire at Versailles, xxxii
1905
assassination of Grand Duke Sergius in Moscow, 23
Baltic national movements in, 143
first emigration of German aristocrats from the Baltic region, 185
in Lithuanian historiography, 152
Keyserling’s experience of, 52
1914, 28 June
assassination of Franz Ferdinand, 4
1914, August
outbreak of the First World War, 37
1916
death of Franz Josef I, Emperor of Austria, 5
1917, xlvii
Balfour Declaration, 95
divided archive of Baron Taube, 171
February Revolution in Russia, xx
Freud lectures on Mourning and Melancholia in Vienna, 23
internment of Baltic Barons for treason in Russian Empire, 146
Max Weber’s talk about Personality and the Orders of Life, xxxviii
representation of revolutions in film, 34
Revolutions in Russian Empire, xxii
Start of Peace talks at Brest-Litovsk, xx
1917 Club, The
and Leonard Woolf’s foundation of, 214
1918
acquisition of Manet’s Execution of Maximilian by the National Gallery in London, 21
cities, xxii
disintegration of the Habsburg Empire, 69
Dissolution of the Pale of Settlement, 147
Habsburgergesetz passed in Austria, 71
Jozef Piłsudski released from Magdeburg fortress, 53
Keyserling’s experience of, 134
November, foundation of Kurt Hiller’s club Politischer Rat geistiger Arbeiter, 94
Representation of the People Act in Britain, xxiii
revolution in Germany, 100
shooting of Romanoff family and immediate household in Ekaterinburg, xxvi
1919
abolition of aristocratic privilege in Austria, 109
award of Nietzsche prize to Oswald Spengler and Hermann Keyserling, 133
failure of Munich Republic, 187
Max Weber’s Munich lecture on Politics as a Vocation, xxxiii
Spartacus Uprising in Berlin, 102
Versailles, Peace of, xxxii
1932
Volta Congress on Europe, 192
1933
Anrep’s first design of National Gallery mosaics, 208
Entretiens sur l’Avenir de l’Esprit Européen in Paris, 138
Hitler appointed Chancellor, 194
National Socialism and revolution, 194
Nobel Peace Prize, 62
1935
Nuremberg laws and implications for aristocratic families, 197
1937
Great Exposition in Paris, 233
1939
Norbert Elias’s The Civilizing Process published in Switzerland, 25
Volta Congress on Africa in Rome, 203
1941
Alfred Rosenberg appointed Commissioner for the Eastern Territories, 197
German invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, 141
London Blitz, 233
abolition
benefits from, 220
of aristocratic estates in the Baltic, 164
of monarchy, xxi
of noble titles and privileges in Austria, 198
of private property, xl
of religion, xl
of samurai privileges, 77
of status, xxix
of titles in Weimar Germany, 107
redistribution, 107
socialism, 78
Adyar
Theosophical Society, 125
aesthetic reform, 123
affective community, 221
Agrarian Union, and Germany, 105
Ahnenpass, 164
Alastair, 116
Alexander I of Russia, 185
Alexander II of Russia
assassination of, 9
Alexanderplatz, 60
Ali, Abdullah Yusuf, 83
Alix von Hessen-Darmstadt, Empress of Russia
pearls, 31
Alps, 98
Altdorfer, Albrecht, 26
Altes Schloss Königsberg, 37
Alvensleben, Maximilian Baron von, 16
Alvensleben, Udo von
Veltheim’s circle, 116
Ambras, Castle of, 14
anarchists, xxix
Angell, Norman, 62
Anif Castle, 188
animals
bison, fear of extinction of, xxvi
deer, 3
hunting of, 25
lions, 35
sheep, 41
snakes, 14
tigers, 25
Anschluss, 69
Anthroposophical Society, 117
Antigone, 154
Antigone, appropriation of plot in the twentieth century, 140
anti-Napoleonic wars, xxiv
Anzilotti, Dionisio, 158
apocalypse
representations of the First World War, 46
Apponyi, Count, 195
Arabian Sea, 35
Archduchy
invention of, 11
architecture, 26
Archiv für Sozialwissenschaften und Sozialpolitik, 59
Arcimboldo, 26
Argentina
Tagore’s and Keyserling’s visits of, 132
aristocratic writers, xliii
aristocrats, xxxviii
Armenians, xxix
armies
American Civil War, 125
Austro-Hungarian, 76
auxiliary, 57
Bolshevik decrees on the abolition of ranks, xxix
British Army, 118
cultural code in, 39
foreign regiments in the European imperial armies, 57
Habsburg army, multinational character of, 53
Hessian regiments, 118
Max Weber’s lectures for officers of the Austro-Hungarian army, xxxv
Norfolk Yeomanry, 57
paramilitary corps, 60
prisoners of war, 45
transnationalism of, 56
war crimes, 157
Arnold, Matthew, 213
art nouveau
Ernst Ludwig’s patronage of, 123
Ascona, 190
assassination
dynasties, 8
fear of, 1
Franz Ferdinand, 4
of revolutionary leaders, xxii
photographic representation of, 1
political, xlvii
Atlantic, xxviii
Auf gut Deutsch, 191
Aurora, 154
Austria, 72
as capital of Paneuropa, 71
constitutional assembly of, 198
crown land of the Habsburgs, 11
Republic of, xxviii
sexual tourism in the interwar period, 217
shaming of aristocratic families in, 109
Austria, Emperor of, 12
Austria, Republic of, xxx
Austria-Hungary, xx, xxiv, xxv, xxviii, xxxii, xli, xliii, 3, 53, 58, 64, 73, 74, 77, 96, 187, 202, 203, 221, 222, 223
aviators, 63
Ažbe, Anton, 187
Baden-Powell, Robert, 181
Baeck, Leo
School of Wisdom, 123
Baghdad, 32
Bahia
early photography, 30
Baker, Josephine, 217
Balfour Declaration, 95
balloon flights
Battle of Solferino, 28
Baltic
Germans, 105
land reforms, 118
lands, 142
nobility, 124
ostzeiskie nemtsy, 152
plurality of juristidictions in, 142
Provinces, 44
Baltic Barons, xxv, xxx, 30, 67, 68, 140, 142, 143, 146, 147, 151, 152, 156, 160, 164, 166, 168, 169, 170, 172, 178
caricatures of, 143
transnationalism, xliv
white émigrés, 142
Baltic Lloyd, 38
Baltic Seas, xxviii
Baltische Ritterschaften, 105
banking, xxv, 91
Belle Epoque, 48
First World War, xxxvii
in imperial economies, 220
Weimar Republic, 51
Banz, Castle, 180
Barthes, Roland, 31
Bata, Tomas
funding of Paneuropa movement, 90
battle painters, 28
Bavarian King, abdication of, 188
Bayer corporation
funding of Paneuropa movement, 90
Beales, Carleton
journalism, 33
Beatles, The, 250
Becher, Johannes R., 49
Bedford, Duke of
private zoo in London, xxvi
Beer Hall putsch, 189
Behr, Baron Kurt von
heritage, 180
being known in virtue of being known, 6
Bell, Vanessa, 243
Belyi, Andrei, 126
Benjamin, Walter, 29
Berdyaev, Nikolai, 126
Bibliothèque Nationale, 48
Bielaiev, General Ivan, 44
Bildung, 82
Bismarck, Goedela, 67
Bismarck, Gottfried von
membership in the Nazi party, 200
Bissung, Friedrich Wilhelm von, 116
Blavatsky, Helena, 124
Blavatsky, Madame Helena, 124
Blok, Aleksandr, 126
Bloomsbury, 52
Blüher, Hans, 289
Bologna, xxxvii
Bolsheviks, xx, xxix, xxxi, xl, 52
idea of class struggle, 133
new diplomacy, 216
party, xxix
perceptions by tourists, 122
Poland, 55
revolution, xxii
Russian Civil War, 38
socialism, 159
VChk, 182
borders, xxii, xlv, 37, 71, 83, 97, 186, 205, 234, 237
national, xxxviii
Russian, xxi
transcendence of, xxxviii
transgression of through air, 46
Bormann, Martin, 179
Boston, 20
Bourbon, House of, 32
Bourbons, Catholicism of, 70
Bourdieu, Pierre, 149
Brabourne, Lord, Viceroy of India and Governor of Bengal,
Brandenburger Tor, 60
brands
coats of arms, 6
Bremen, 38
Bremer Lloyd, 38
British Commonwealth, xli
Brod, Max, 86
Broglie, family of, xxxvii
Bruckmann, Hugo, 193
Brussels, 51
Bucharest, 51
Budapest, xxii
Buenos Aires, 30
buffer zone, interimperial, 142
Bug, xxxiii
Bukowinaer Post, 74
Bulgaria, xx
burghers, 207
Burma
Veltheim’s travels to, 116
business, personal, 37
C.L.R. James, The Case for West Indian Self-Government (1937), 232
cabaret, 51
cabinet of Junkers and Barons
Weimar Germany, 107
Cambridge Apostles, 215
Cambridge University, 210
Campanella, Tommaso de, 82
Canada
railway business, 48
Cancrin, family of, 162
Capa, Robert, 33
Cars, Dukes de, xxxvii
cartes de visite, 29
Cassirer, Ernst, 244
category crisis, 242
Catholic Church, 163
central Asia, 28
Cesanek, Fritz, 79
Chagall, Marc
ethnographyof eastern Europe, 45
chain, aristocratic
and French Revolution, xxxviii
Chapultepec, Castle of, 24
charisma, xxiv, xliv, 6, 207
character, xxxvi
cultural production of, 26
education, xxxvii
groups, 67
Max Weber’s concept of, xxxvii
monuments of assassination, 9
Munich, 190
National Socialism, 179
Paneuropa, 82
personality, xxxvii
revolutionary, xxii
royal, and persistence of, 8
theological origins of, 6
charisma of decline
German intellectuals, xlvii
Charlotte of Belgium, 17
Chicago, 28
Chlumetzky, Baron Johann Heinrich von, 73
Christian Empire, idea of, 82
Christianity
Coudenhove-Kalergi’s idea of Europe, 80
cities, xxii, xxxvii, 9, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 54, 75, 121, 131, 177, 207
as centers of interwar internationalism, xxiii
as centres of international law, 177
Hanseatic, 184
revolutionary violence in Germany, 60
city states, xxxv
civilizing process, 25
Clary-Aldringen, Alfons, 120
class
and Weber, xxxvi
Cold War, 96
Colonial Society, and Germany, 105
colonies
Paneuropa, 80
colonization
Jews, 43
Colpach Castle
Mayrisch family, 90
Columbia University, 84
Columbus, Christopher, 19
Comenius, Jan
Coudenhove-Kalergi’s genealogy of Europe, 81
Comintern, 213
Committee for a Free Germany, 62
commodities cannot go to market
Karl Marx’s phrase, 7
Comsomol
ideas of chivalry in, 181
confiscation, xlv
Congress of Vienna, 80
constitutional democrats
Ukraine, xxx
contact zone, 245
contemporaneity, xxv
control
and territory, 16
conversion, xxxii, xxxiii, 62, 119
cavalry, 102
elite identities, 68
narrative, 126
post-imperial, 218
regiments, 46
universities, 119
Cordiglia, Adrien, 19
Corinth, Lovis, 51
Corriere Israelito, 75
Corti, Count Egon Caesar, 19
Cossacks, 37
Coudenhove-Kalergi, Count Richard, xxv, xli, 48, 71, 72, 81, 200
appeal to the Commonwealth, 78
Paneuropa ABC (1931), 71
relationship with fascism,
vision of Paneuropa, 83
Council of State, Prussian, 38
councils, government by, xxi
counter-culture, 217
court publishers, 36
Cramer von Laue, Constantin
and Veltheim’s circle, 116
Cranach Press, 49
creditors, 15
cremation, 114, 184
caricature, 103
Rosenberg’s design of a crematorium, 184
Theosophy in the United States and Britain, 114
Creon, 154
crimes against humanity, 177
critique
as political intervention, xxvi
critique of anti-Semitism
Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi, 77
Croatia, xxxvii
Crusaders, 3
Crusades, 82
Crystal Palace, 24
Cuba, 17
Curzon line, xxii
Dalcroze Institute, 186
Dante Alighieri
Coudenhove-Kalergi’s genealogy of Europe, 78
De Monarchia (1318–1321), 80
universal monarchy, 80
Darré, Walther, 198
Davies, David, 94
Dawson, Christopher, 203
Dawson, Daniel, 19
decline
empire, 1
Degas sale (1917), 21
Degas, Edgar, 20
Degenerate Art and music, 180
Dehmel, Richard, 51
Delaisi, Francis, 89
democracy, xxiii, xxv, 9, 94, 109, 127, 214, 226, 240
estrangement, 250
European Union, xlv
Keyserling’s idea of, 135
Robert Michels on, xxxix
totalitarianism, 200
unrepresentability, 241
voters’ abstinence, 240
war, 76
Der Leuchter, 130
Detinets, 153
Deutsche Gesellschaft 1914, 51
Deutscher Herrenklub
Germany, 105
Deutscher Künstlerbund
founded by Count Kessler in 1903, 212
dictatorships, 9
Dieterle, William, 33
Dietrichstein family, 69
directors, 33
Dominicans
the Baltic littoral, 185
Dönhoff, Marion Countess of, 119
Doorn
exile of Wilhelm II, 32
double consciousness
and W.E.B. DuBois, 160
Dreiländerverlag, 113
Duchies, 11
duel, 52
Duisberg, Carl, 113
Duleep-Singh, Prince, 57
Duncker&Humblot, 18
Durand-Ruel, Paul, 20
Dürer, Albrecht, 26
Dzerzhinsky, Feliks
nickname ‘Knight of the Revolution’, 182
East Anglia, 57
economic integration, 82
economy, cultural, xli
Edda, and Nazi book of nobility, 162
Edib, Halidé, 133
Edison, Thomas, 126
education
academies, xxiii
ashram, 131
charisma, xxxvii
fine art academies, 187
free schools, xxiii
military, 56
modern dance, 186
Eerde, Castle of, 126
Einstein, Albert, 208
Eisenstein, Mikhail
father of Sergei Eisenstein, 184
elections, 73
elite mentality, 220
elites, xxx, 1, 52
aesthetic tastes of, 210
aristocratic, xxxvi
complicity of, xliv
cultural, 113
diplomats, 113
dynastic, xxx
education of, 56
future of, xxxviii
German-speaking, xxiv
habitus, xxxvi
Habsburg dynasty, 71
Indian, 122
industrial, 90
intelligentsia, xxvi
lingua franca, 44
military officers, 113
mixed, 202
moral bankruptcy of, xx
non-European, 57
patrimonialization of, xxxvii
patronage, 212
permeability of, 58
post-imperial, 249
Protestantism of, xxxvi
Prussian officers, 61
recognition, xxxix
traditional, xxii
Elizabeth, Empress of Austria
and assassination of, 32
Emden, 38
emotional communities
Barbara Rosenwein, 224
empire, 82, 94, 155
decline of, xxviii
embodiment, 1
Keyserling’s idea of, 127
patrimonies, 235
peripheries of, xxxvi
persistence of, xxvi
Quentin Skinner’s discussion of, xxxv
representation of, 1
theory of, xxvi
empires, xxx, xxxviii, xliii, 72, 74, 80, 156, 177, 198, 224
and transimperial influence on reform, 76
Austro-Hungarian, 187
decline of, 167
enlightenment, 161
international relations, 154
legal heterogeneity, 143
modern, xxvi
Nazi and Soviet, 141
religion, 70
tempo of decline, 1
Empress Elizabeth
steamer, 3
Endres, Franz Carl, 59
engineering, 183
ennoblement, xliii
enterprises, global, xxvi
equality
liberalism, 107
Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesen-Darmstadt
and brother of Alix von Hessen-Darmstadt, last Empress of Russia, 108
Keyserling’s connection with, 122
Troeltsch
Ernst, 123
Esperanza, 75
estates and castles, xxxviii, 14, 20, 24, 32, 37, 46, 48, 90, 111, 119, 126, 179, 180, 186, 188, 220
Esterhazy family, 69
Estland, 143
ethics
problem of plural allegiance, 37
ethnographic collections, 7, 25
and Southern Slavs, 36
Austrian Museum für Völkerkunde, 36
dilettantism, 7
Franz Ferdinand of Habsburg, 75
Habsburg court publishers, 36
Maximilian of Habsburg, 17
Maximilian’s Mexikanische Kostbarkeiten, 24
Montezuma, so-called feather crown of, 36
Nazi cultivation of folk culture, 180
ethnographic research
Nazi institute for the study of German folk art, 193
Eugen Diederichs, 138
Europe, xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxv, xxxi, xxxiii, 12, 53, 67, 89, 95, 102, 141, 242
and civil wars in, 35
and Mazzini’s Young Europe movement, 81
and supranational idea of, 53
common imperial memory, xlvii
continental empires of, xxiii
empires of, 4
federations in, xxix
genealogy of and Nazi ideology, 200
genealogy of idea of, xlv
hegemony of, xxviii
imperial devolution, xxvi
imperial past of, xxiii
intellectual communities of, xxv
Otto Neurath’s map of, xxxiii
pan-German idea of, 127
railway business, 48
supranational idea of, 127
European Union, xlv, 237
Aristide Briand, 93
as successor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, 80
Vienna as capital of, 82
Europeanness, 7
exchange, cultural, 7
ex-hidalgo
Keyserlings description as, 128
exile, xx, xxi, xxii, xxx, xliii, 61, 65, 69, 70, 84, 97, 113, 118, 135, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 166, 171, 181, 211, 233
internal, 138
existentialism, xliv
experience, xlvii
Fabians, 126
Fackel, Die, 49
Faenza, xxxvii
fame, 4
familiarity, illusion of, 6
family
associations, xxxviii
father–son relationships, 69
features, and dynastic charisma, 102
histories of, xxv
history, xliv
memory, 150
networks of, xxv
pedigree, 173
solidarity, 37
family legends, 48
famous deaths
Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969–74), 3
Far East
exoticism of, 113
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, 46
federations
German Confederation, 12
Fénelon, François, Two Essays on the Balance of Europe (1720), 81
Ferdinand Maximilian of Habsburg, 12
film, xlv
filmmakers, 34
financiers, 16
Finland, xxxiii
First World War, xxx, 1, 9, 39
changes of account of Maximilian’s life, 15
eastern front, 43
middle-eastern front, 43
First World War, consequences of, xliv
Fischer, Samuel, 51
Fitzgerald family, xxxvii
Florence, xxxvii
Föhr
Veltheim’s exile, 118
Folk-lore, 8
Foreign Legion
France, 57
Forster, E.M., 215
fragmentation, 243
Franco, Francisco, xxii
Franco-German cooperation, 64
Frankfurt University, 133
Franklin, Sindey, 34
Franz Ferdinand of Habsburg, 1, 4, 5, 21
2,047 ancestors of, 11
assassination of, xlvii
celebrity, 7
curator of culture, 7
Galician churches, 45
heritage preservation, 75
ideas of reform, 73
in film by Max Ophüls, 240
Tagebuch meiner Reise um die Erde (1895), 3
Franz Ferdinand von Trotta
protagonist in Joseph Roth’s Capuchin Vault, 84
Franz Josef I, Emperor of Austria, 5, 9, 12, 15, 17, 19, 25, 35, 35, 57, 69, 70, 71, 72, 76, 109, 199
Frazer, James, ‘The Killing of the Khazar Kings’ (1917), 8
French Guyane, xli
Friedrich II, King of Prussia, 140
Frobenius, Leo, 45
funeral processions, 102
future, discussion of, xxxviii
Gallipoli, Battle of, 57
Gandhi, Mahatma
meeting with Veltheim, 117
Gdansk, 179
genealogical research, 164
genealogy
as alternative history, 160
dynasty, 8
idea of chivalry, 194
Nazi ideology, 161
of Crusaders, 146
of international law, 160
portraits at Paneuropa congresses, 78
private, 167
public sculptures, 100
state, xxxvi
generation, xxiv, xxxviii, xliii, 1, 4, 13, 35, 39, 46, 71, 72, 75, 77, 117, 121, 133, 139, 151, 156, 178, 179, 181, 183, 192, 196, 201, 203, 205, 215, 220, 223, 233
heritage, 72
in fiction, 69
post-imperial, 201
geography, affective, 63
George, Stefan, 190
German Confederation, 12
German culture
divided conception of, 237
German Democratic Republic
Ludwig Renn’s career, 62
German imperial army, 53
German National People’s Party (DNVP), 196
German Romantics, 14
German Society of 1914, 48
German–Austrian Union, idea of
Coudenhove-Kalergi’s opposition to, 71
Germany, xxiii, xxiv, xxviii, xxxii, 1, 21, 51
and special path, xxxii
colonies of, xli
division of, xxi
dynasties, xxxii
German Republic, xxxvii
intellectuals, xxiv
isolation of, xxiii
nation, xxxi
Orientalism, xxv
principalities and kingdoms, xxi
Republic of, xxxii
revolutions, xxii
Romantics, 19
Germany’s new prophets
Henry de Man, 67
Gide, André, 218
Gilbert, Felix, 216
Gill, Eric, 224
Giuseppe Mazzini, ‘Europe: Its Conditions and Prospects’ (1852), 81
Gleichen, Heinrich von, 105
global travel, xxv
globetrotting, 35
Goertz, Max, 224
Goetheanum, 114
Goncharova, Natalia, 45
Gordon Craig, Edward, 49
government in exile, 61
Grafton Galleries, 209
Gramsci, Antonio, xxxix
Granada, 24
Grand Duchies, 11
Grand Expositions, 25
Grant, Duncan, 215
Graves, Robert, 64
Great Exhibition, 18
Greece, xxxiii
Greek myths, 65
Greek revival
architectural styles, 151
Groener, Wilhelm
Veltheim’s circle, 113
Grotius, Hugo
Coudenhove-Kalergi’s genealogy of Europe, 81
group charisma
Norbert Elias’s concept of, 67
guilt and debt
defeat, xxxvii
Günther, Hans, 186
Gurdjieff, 125
Schroeter, Gustav
Veltheim’s ex libris, 113
Haam, 75
Habazaleth, 75
Habsburg, xx, xxx, xli, xlvii, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 53, 57, 58, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 80, 98, 104, 105, 109, 119, 134, 152, 173, 182, 188, 199, 201, 204, 205, 207, 219, 221, 231, 245, 271, 276, 279, 282, 283, 286, 287, 294, 297, 301, 309
Habsburg Empire
multi-ethnic character of, 71
Habsburg, Otto von, 84
Hague agreements on maritime law, 156
Halle, 118
Halm, Friedrich von, 111
hammer and sickle, 167
Harper’s. A Journal of Civilization, 20
Hasaron, 75
Haskalah, 75
Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, 19
Haushofer, Karl, 86
Haxthausen, Baron August von, 193
Heartfield, John, 49
Hedin, Sven, 45
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 155
Heidegger, Martin, 169
Heil Hitler, 166
Heller, Hugo, 85
Hellingrath, Norbert von, 193
Henckel von Donnersmarck, Guido, 51
Henry de Man, ‘Germany’s New Prophets’ (1924), 67
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 14
heritage, 45
activities of the Habsburgs, 11
cultural, 48
Habsburg management of, 72
post-socialist culture, 248
Hermann Keyserling with Rabindranath Tagore and Goedela Keyserling (b. Bismarck)., 68
hero, absence of, xlvi
Herrenhaus, Prussian, 152
Herriot, Edouard, 89
Herzfelde, Wieland, 49
Herzl, Theodor, 166
Hessel, Franz, 190
Hessen Darmstadt, Duchy of, 106
Hessen-Darmstadt, House of, xxix
Het Centrum, 55
Heuss, Theodor
membership in German Society of 1914, 51
Hibbert Journal, The, 52
Hibbert Trust, 52
Hibbert, Robert, 52
Himmler, Heinrich
and Nazi ideas of new chivalry, 179
Hindu mythology
popularity of in Germany, 113
hinterland, 234
historicism
architectural style, 9
Hitchcock, Alfred, The Lady Vanishes (1938), 240
Hoare, Sir Samuel, 46
Hobsbawm, Eric, 86
Hoetzsch, Otto, 33
Hofburg, Vienna
seat of Paneuropean Movement, 78
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 212
Hofmuseum, 3
Holstein-Gottorf, House of, 146
Holy Alliance, 156
Holy Trinity
Taube’s membership of, 153
home rule, xxviii
homelessness, , 119
homosexuality, 217
honours, xxvi
Hoover Institution, xlv
horizons of experience, 245
Horthy, Miklós, 76
Hotel Adlon, 222
Hotel Vierjahreszeiten, 191
households, royal, 37
Hull, incident, 154
Humanitas lodge, 85
Hyderabad, 25
iconography, 29
identity politics, 11
IG Farben, 113
Ilf, Ilya and Petrov, Evgeny
parody of aristocrats, 240
Illustrated London News, xxvi
imperium, xxxv
incognito, 185
India, 4, 9, 25, 32, 121, 125
colonial representation of Indian figures, 25
E.M. Forster’s vision of, 242
Indian Congress, 80
Veltheim’s travels to, 116
Indian princely states
perceptions of Germany by, 122
Indologists, 116
inequality, 235
infantry, 62
information, transmission of, xlvi
inheritance, 220
Institut international de cooperation intellectuelle, 134
intellectuals, Anglo-American, xlvii
interests, xxviii
French and British, xxxii
French industrial, 92
national, xxxv
national and imperial, 38
international
from above, xxiii
International Court of Justice, 159
international organizations, xxv
International Red Cross, 44
internationalism, xxiii, xxv, xli, 27, 38, 48, 55, 75, 89, 139, 140, 142, 159, 172, 187, 195, 201, 204, 206, 207, 213, 218, 221, 225, 226, 236
Irish Sea, xxviii
Iron Curtain, 200
iron law of oligarchy
Robert Michels, xxxix
Iskra, 186
Islam, 82
isolation, political and economic, xxxviii
Itúrbide family, 15
Jacobins, 26
James, C.L.R., 226
Jannott, K.
Goather life insurance, 107
Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion (1937), 62
Jerusalem, King of, 35
Jesuits, 158
Jews
denationalization of, 109
deportation of, 197
expropriation of, 180
identity, 227
intellectuals, 206
Keyserling’s comparison of Baltic diaspora with, 137
nobility, 199
Nuremberg laws, 162
Yiddish language, 137
Jockey Club
Mexico City, 31
Joseph II, Emperor of Austria, 75
Journal de Genève, 206
jurisdictional jockeying
Lauren Benton, 143
Kakania, 71
Kali, Hindu goddess of destruction, 113
Kapp, Wolfgang, 189
Karl Stefan of Habsburg, 5
Karl V, Holy Roman Emperor, 32
Kasack, Hermann, 116
Kazan, 9
Kellogg-Briand pact, 93
Kelmscott Press, 213
Kelsen, Hans, xxxix
Kerenski, Alexander, xxix
Kessler, Count Harry, xxv, 31, 32, 33, 39, 41, 43, 45, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 63, 64, 65, 122, 123, 135, 138, 165, , , 233, 245, 254, 263, 264, 273, 276, 279, 284, 289, 294, 301, 308, 311, 314
‘Nationality’ (1906, 1919, 1921), 213
and St. George’s school, 32
and visit to Querétaro, 31
Germany and Europe (1923), 213
Notes on Mexico (1898), 31
photographic portrait with a periscope on the Eastern front (1916), 40
Rilke translation for Hogarth Press,
Robert Graves in Mallorca, 65
trip to Mexico,
war trauma and cosmopolitan conversion of, 51
Keyserling, Count Hermann, xxv, 122, 152
‘A philosopher’s view of the war’ (1915), 52
‘La Révolte des forces telluriques et la responsabilité de l´Esprit’ (1933), 138
Bolshevism or the Aristocracy of the Future (1918), 52
celebrity of, 68
correspondence with Prince Rohan, 133
Das Reisetagebch eines Philosophen, 2 Vols (1919–1920), 53
Das Spektrum Europas (1928), 52
letter of 20 September 1933 to the Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, 135
meeting with Annie Besant, 125
participation in anti-fascist congress, 138
perceived anti-German sentiments of, 52
South American Meditations (1932), 129
Veltheim’s circle, 116
Keyserling/Keyserlingk family, 39, 51
Keyserling, Count Alfred, 37
Keyserlingk, Count Robert, Prussian governor of Königsberg, 38
Keyserlingk-Cammerau, Count Robert, Prussian governor of Königsberg, 37
Khanate, 137
Kharkov, university of, 156
Khristos voskrese, 166
Kiel, xxii
King’s two bodies, 237
Kinsky, Count Feri, 134
Kjellén, Johan Rudolf, 86
Klee, Paul, 187
Klingelhöfer, Gustav
anarchism, 102
Knights of St. George
medieval chivalric orders, 184
Knights of the Round Table, 105
Koch-Weser, Erich
Veltheim’s circle, 113
Kolb, Annette, 116
Kolomea, 75
Königsberg, 37
Königsberg Castle, 61
Korda, Alexander, Tragödie im Hause Habsburg (1924), 34
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 34
Kotzebue, August von, 14
Koudelka, Alfred von, 73
Kraus, Karl, xliii
Krenek, Ernst, 32
Kronstadt, 146
Kultur versus Zivilisation, xlvi
Kun, Béla, xxii
Kunitake, Kume, 77
Kustodiev, Boris, 27
L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 231
La Paloma, 17
Laban, Rudolf von, 186
land reforms, 118
Landau, Rom, 131
Larisa Reisner
as theorist of revolution, xxii
Larson, Frans, 138
Lasker-Schüler, Else, 213
Latin America
exoticism of, 113
Latvian, 151
Lauenstein, Castle of, xxxviii
law, xxiii, xxv
as instrument of equality, 198
Austrian constitution, xxxix
autocracy, 161
civil, 157
compensation, 106
constitution of the United States, 74
constitutional court in Weimar Germany, 107
criminalization of homosexuality, 217
derecognition, 109
equality, 107
municipal, 158
National Socialism, 162
Paneuropean constitution, 83
plurality of, 142
precedent, 107
League of Nations, xxiii, xxiv, xxix, xliii, 80, 89, 93, 139, 153, 158, 159, 195, 201, 203, 206, 212, 216, 218, 225, 226, 232, 236, 253, 281, 296
Ledebur, Senator Eugen, 134
Left and Right, xxiii
legitimacy, xxxv
Lehman, John, 217
Leicester, Dukes of, xxxvii
Lemberg, 75
Leningrad, 122
letters, 49
Leuthner, Karl, 109
Leviathan, 24
Libau, 38
liberalism, xxii, xxiii, xxxiii, xxxvii, xxxviii, 86
and internationalism, 82
Austrian, 94
Bolsheviks, xl
British, and revolutions, xxiv
Carl Schmitt’s defence of, 107
Italian, xxxviii
Jewish, 74
Mexican, 16
nationalism, xxxv
reforms, xxi
Russian, and monarchism, 142
study of Roman law, 157
Walther Rathenau, 51
Lichterfelde, 56
Liddell, Robert
war reporting, 44
Liebenfels, Josef Lanz von, 194
Life, 33
Lippman, Walter, Phantom Public (1927), 240
Lithuanian, 151
Livland, 143
Livonia, 177
Lloyd George, David
reliquishment of German names and titles by the royal family, xxx
Lloyd Wright, Frank, 125
Lobkowicz, Prince, 3
Lodge, John Davis, 239
Lodz, 55
Losev, Alexei, 168
Louis XVI, King of France
discussion in the Weimar Republic of, 106
Ludwig Salvator, Archduke of Austria
death at Castle Brandeis, 32
Lukács, György, xxii
Lutkowski, Lothar Stengel von, 186
Luttich
German atrocities in, 51
luxury, 3
Lynar, family of, xxxvii
Lyon-Caen, Charles, 158
Mad Baron, 137
Madeira, 32
Magdeburg fortress, 53
Magyarization, 74
Maharajah, former, 57
Maillol, Aristide, 48
Mallorca
exile in, 65
Mama Carlota, 17
Man, Hendrik (Henri) de, 133
Manchester Guardian, xliii
Manet, Edouard
constancy of appreciation of, 245
Manet, Édouard
Bloomsbury circle, 221
changing value of paintings by,
Execution of Maximilian, 20
representation of resistance, 33
mantenere lo stato, xxxv
Marat, Jean-Paul, 27
Marconi, Guglielmo, 201
Margerie, Roland de, 33
Maria Theresia of Habsburg, 12
Marie Antoinette, last Queen of France, xxii, 4, 70, 71
and Stefan Zweig’s novel on, 70
execution of, 27
Marienburg Castle, 179
Marinetti, Tomasi, 203
Marshall Plan, 237
Martens, Fedor, 154
masculinity, 241
Mass Observation group, 249
Massachusetts, 63
Mathildenhöhe
artists’ colony, 123
Matteotti, Giacomo, xxii
Maximilian ruling the New World
allegorical fresco by Cesare dell’Aqua at Miramare, 24
‘Der entthronte Fürst’ (1863), 13
‘Eisenbahn im Urwald’ (1860), 70
Mayr, Michael, 109
mechanical reproducibility
news of death, 29
medals of dishonour, 27
mediators, xliii
Meiji Reforms/Restoration, 77
melancholy
post-imperial, 225
Memel, 148
memories
institutional purchase of, xlv
memory, xlv
ancestral, 8
commodification of, xxiii
empire, xlvi
institutional control of, xlv
monuments, 17
multidirectional, and Michael Rothberg, xlv
nostalgia, 204
of war, xliii
reproducibility of, 34
selective, 251
trans-imperial, 208
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Albrecht, 204
Mendez, Concepcion (Conchita), 17
mentality, xlvii
mercenaries, 57
Messenia, 151
Mexican Intervention, 16
Mexican republicans, xlvii
Michelet, Jules
black rebellion, 14
Michelin’s Guides to Postwar Europe (1919–1922), 64
Michels, Robert, xxxix
middle classes, 39
Middle East, 12
Milandri, Giuseppe, 206
Milosz, Czeslaw, 142
minority, 105, 110, 218, 241
intellectuals, 241
national and transnational, xxvi
opinion, 77
representation in archives, 241
rights, 83
sexuality, 218
minority culture
F.R. Leavis, 241
mirrors for princes, xxxv
Mirzapur, 25
modernism, 49, 225, 229
art, 32
artists, 243
cremation, 114
designers, 49
National Socialism, 184
Orientalism, 138
poetry, xxviii
poets, 116
the myth of the Teutonic Knights, 184
modernization, 29
Modotti, Tina, 33
moment
post-imperial, xlvii
monuments, 48
monarch
image of deposition, 8
monarchists, Russian, 38
Mondrian, Piet
Theosophical Society, 126
Mongolia, 137
Montezuma, 14
Montherlant, Henri de, 134
monument
Querétaro, 20
Morris, William, 213
Moses, 231
Munich, Republic of, xxxiii
Münster, 141
Muraviev family, 163
musée imaginaire
André Malraux, xlvi
Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, 14
Musil, Robert, 25
Mussolini, 83
mystery plays, xxxviii
Nadar, Félix, 28
Napoleon Bonaparte
Coudenhove-Kalergi’s genealogy of Europe, 78
Napoleon, age of, xxxviii
Narva, 148
National Democratic Party
Czechoslovakia, 104
National Gallery, London, 21
National Socialism, xliv, 83, 138, 173
archives, xlv
collaborationism, 133
continuity with Weimar Republic, 51
empire, 100
eugenics, 185
expropriation of large landowners, 122
idea of nobility, 109
importance of Nuremberg for, 204
industry, 91
Munich, 192
seizure of power, 194
nationalism, 5, 82
Baltic region, 143
Estonian, 246
German, 134
Hungarian, 9
Italian, 221
Mexican, 20
Polish, 53
nationalization, xxxi
nation state, and Poland, 53
Nĕmec, Bohumil, 104
neo-classical, 9
neo-Gothic, 9
neo-Mughal, 9
Netherlands, xxv
Neue Freie Presse, 74
New York Daily Tribune, 15
New York University, 84
newspapers and periodicals, xxvi, xliii, xliv, xlv, 15, 44, 45, 54, 74, 75, 85, 87, 91, 104, 108, 120, 173, 182, 186, 193, 194, 195, 196, 212, 217, 231
Nieman, 148
Nietzsche society
Weimar, 133
Nietzsche, Friedrich, xxxvi, 48, 81, 128, 133, 202, 212, 213, 214, 223, 264, 275, 288, 295, 302, 314
archive of, 91
Coudenhove-Kalergi’s genealogy of Europe, 78
prize named after, 133
nineteenth century, xxxviii
Nobel Peace Prize, 62
Nobel, Alfred, 37
nobility, xxxvi, 16, 75, 83, 98, 102, 105
constitutions, 106
duelling, 77
Hitler, 200
Max Weber’s discussion of, xxxv
Nazi idea of, 165
sociology of, xxxvii
noble continent
Winston Churchill’s concept of, 236
noble titles, 71
Nolde, Baron, 156
Norfolk, 57
North America, 4
North German Lloyd, 24
Nostitz, Count Erwein, 134
Nostitz, Helene von, 212
Notre Dame
fear of bombing of, 48
Novgorod, 153
Nueva Galicia, 15
Nuremberg, 177
obedience to authority, 59
Ober-Ost, 177
occult
Keyserling’s interest in, 124
Ocean Lloyd, 69
Odessa, 186
Olgivanna, name used by Olga Ivanovna Hinzenburg, 125
Oncken, Hermann
and Prince Rohan, 134
Opel, Adam
funding of Paneuropa movement, 90
Order of St. John, 105
Order of the Garter, 105
Order of the Golden Fleece, 105
Orientalists
Germany, 139
d’Ormesson, Wladimir, 134
Ortega y Gasset, José, 305
Ostelbia, xxxvi
Österreichische Illistrierte Zeitung, 79
Ostia, 203
Ostrovsky, Nikolai, 119
Otto Reichl, 52
Otto von Habsburg, 12
Ottomans, xxxii
Pabst, Waldemar, 102
paganism, 14
painters, 26
Palestine
Veltheim’s travels to, 116
Pallandt, Baron Philip van, 126
Pallavicini family, 69
Paneuropa, xxv, 48, 72, 78, 80, 81, 82, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 94, 243, 261
colonies, xli
congresses, 78
congresses, and genealogy, 78
Coudenhove-Kalergi’s map of, xlii
forms of government, 72
movement, , 78
Paneuropean Union, xli
Winston Churchill, 95
pan-German League, xxxv
pan-Slavism, 221
Papen, Karl von, 107
Parallelaktion, 25
paramilitary corps, 51
pariah, xxxvi
Paris, 18, 20, 21, 28, 48, 70, 140, 161
art salons, 28
early photography, 30
émigrés in, 142
Russian emigration to, 141
parliament, xxiii
Partrey House, 48
Parvus, Alexander, 186
patrimony
gender, 170
Pavlovsk, 141
Père Lachaise, cemetery of, 48
peripheries, internal, xxix
Pernambuco, 30
person, 5
personality, xxv
Personality and the Orders of Life (1917)
and Max Weber, xxxviii
persuasion, xxxix
Perugia, xxxvii
Peter and Paul fortress, 38
Peter I of Russia, 185
Peterhof, 46
Petrarca, Francesco
forgery of Habsburg titles, 12
phantom empires, 242
Philippines, 28
philo-Semitism, 75
philo-Slavism, 75
philosophy, xxv
Phrygian hat, xxxiii
Piedmont, xxxvii
Piłsudski, Józef, 53
Pinthus, Kurt (ed.) Menschheitsdämmerung (1919), xlvi
Piscator, Erwin, 159
Polish state
future of, 53
political parties, 104
Politis, Nicholas, 158
Polytechnic High School, 119
Polytechnic School, 178
Pomerania
representation of, 51
Pompeii, 203
Poniatowski, family of, xxxvii
Pontigny, Abbey of, 90
Popocatepetl
ownership of, 32
Popovici, Aurel, 74, 84
Die Vereinigten Staaten von Groß-Österreich. Politische Studien zur Lösung der nationalen Fragen und staatrechtlichen Krisen in Österreich-Ungarn (1906), 74
Popper, Karl, 86
Port Said, 4
Portland, Dukes of, xxxvii
portraiture, xxxix, 11, , 39, 51, 185
Bloomsbury, 227
Coudenhove-Kalergi, 78
Duleep-Singh, 57
Kessler, 39
music and Maximilian of Habsburg, 33
Veltheim, 111
Potocky, Count of
private zoo of, xxvi
Potsdam, xxii
power, xxii
absence of, xxxv
and balance of, 72
balance of powers, 82
charisma, 26
continuity of, 235
conversion of, xxii
dance, 120
Hobbes, 149
magic, 8
memory, 250
narrative, 249
Nietzsche’s concept of ‘will to power’, 81
of granting recognition, xxiii
party, xxx
persistence of, 32
succession, 9
territory, xxxvi
Theosophical Society, 125
transgression, 36
war, xxxii
power, military, 35
prestige, xx, xxii, xxiii, xxvi, xxvii, xxxii, xxxvii, xliii, 11, 52, 67, 68, 71, 135, 156, 235, 239, 250
Prince Albert’s Hussars, 24
Prince Georg Palais, 187
princes, German
and Napoleonic wars, xxxviii
Princip, Gabriel, 4
prisoners of war, 45
privileges
loss of, 119
Privilegium Maius, 11
Progreso, El, 75
propaganda, German, xxxviii
property, private, xl
Protestantism, xxxvi, 10, 70, 150, 163, 205, 206
internationalism, 201
Lutheranism, 151
Reformation, 205
Proust, Marcel, 224
Provisional Government
Russia, xx
Prussia, xx, xxxii, 16, 37, 51, 58, 69, 70, 75, 77, 94, 100, 141, 143, 148, 161, 171, 198, 199, 237, 276, 280
Albrecht of, 100
puppet kingdoms, 5
Rabindranath Tagore, xxiv
race
Latin, idea of, 205
Latin, idea of, and Keyserling’s concept of delicadeza, 138
Latin, idea of, and Kojève, 155
Nordic, idea of, 205
Slavic, idea of, 205
Radek, Karl, xxii
Radetzky March
transimperial uses of, 57
Raffé, Rudolf, Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg – die Tragödie eines Kaiserreiches (1928), 34
railway
capital from, 220
Ranke family
relatives of Robert Graves, 64
Ratzel, Friedrich, 86
recognition, xxiii, xxxix
aristocracy, 106
between old and new elites, xl
between states, xl
derecognition, 110
familiarity, 3
Kojève, 155
relationships between diplomats, xxxix
Simmel’s idea of nobility, 6
reconstruction, 237
Red Sea, 35
redistribution, xxxii
Reformation, 205
regions, xxvi, xxix, xxxvi, 12, 15, 25, 31, 38, 43, 48, 51, 53, 57, 69, 95, 118, 177, 242
centres and peripheries, xxxvi
kingdoms associated with, xxxvii
Reichsbank, 33
Reichserbhofgesetz (1933), xxxix
Reichswart, 196
Remarque, Erich Maria, 62
Remy de la Fosse, Charles, 111
Renan, Ernest, 52
Renn, Ludwig
aristocratic author, 62
Renner, Karl, 92
Renoir, Jean, 62
representation
pictorial, 243
republicanism
imperialism, 15
Mexican, 33
new world, 19
non-European, xlvii
Russian, 153
Spanish Civil War, xliv
republicans, Mexican, xlvii
republics, 16, 17, 60, 63, 85, 100, 107, 110, 172, 181, 186, 197, 200, 225
founded after the First World War, xxviii
opposition to, 113
republics, national, xxxiii
Research Centre for European Reconstruction, 84
resignation
Ferdinand Maximilian, 12
restitution
property of expropriated families in Germany, 119
Reventlow, Count Ernst von, 194
Reventlow, Count Rolf von, 110
Reventlow, Franziska von, 190
revolution, xxii, xxvi
Austria, 97
empire, xx
experience of, xlvii
idea of, xxii
Kessler’s perception of, 51
Nazi Germany, 194
Poland, 53
Russian, xxii
theorists of, xli
revolutionaries
allegorical representation of, 33
revolutions
1905 in Russia, 52
1911 in China, 52
1918 in Germany, 60
and change of constitutions, xxxix
black rebellions, 14
Estonian, 143
European, 29
geographic limits of, xxiii
regional, 30
social, xxxi
uncertainty about, xlvi
Révue de droit international et de droit comparé, 157
Rhine, xxxiii
Riefenstahl, Leni, 34
Riga
university of, 151
riots, xxxii
rivers, xxxiii
Robakidse, Grigol, 116
Rocca, family of, xxxvii
Rodd, Rennell, 195
Rohan, Henri de, 205
Roman Empire, 75
Roman law
Coudenhove-Kalergi’s idea of Europe, 80
Romantics, 13
Rosicrucianism, 114
Roth, Joseph, Die Kapuzinergruft (1939), 69
Rothschild family, 43
Rothschild, Baron Louis, 91
Rousselle, Erwin, 124
royal family, British, xxx
royal guards, 56
Rubonia
the 1905 revolution in the Baltic, 185
Rubonia, student fraternity, 178
Rudolf IV of Habsburg, 11
Rudolf of Habsburg, Crown Prince, 35
Rudolf, Archduke of Austria
suicide of, 32
ruins, 171, 179
ancient Rome, 203
Antigone, 140
Baltic region, 151
empire in, 69
First World War, 64
Freud’s perception of Rome, 232
Michelin’s Guide to the Battlefields, 64
Tripoli, 203
Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle, 226
Yucatán, 31
Rupprecht von Wittelsbach
Grand Tour, 24
Ruspoli, family of, xxxvii
Russia, xx, 1, 37, 52, 62, 70, 72, 76, 100, 105, 108, 122, 123, 125, 126, 132, 141, 146, 148, 152, 154, 156, 183, 184, 193, 201, 216, 217, 218, 222, 223, 225, 235, 246, 261, 281, 284, 285, 287, 293, 298, 300, 303, 305, 309
Russian Civil War, 179
Russian Empire, xx, xxi, xxv, xxviii, xxix, 122, 142, 143, 146, 147, 150, 156, 161, 162, 167, 177, 179, 182, 183, 184
Russian Scientific Institute, 157
Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, 75
Saint-Simoneanism, 214
Salle Pleyel, 128
Salome, Lou Andreas, 223
samurai, 77
Sanary-sur-mer, 135
sanctity, 5
Sandhurst, 56
Santiniketan, 131
Sarabhai, Seth Ambalal
Veltheim, 117
Sarajevo, 4
saving face, xxxii
Saxon royal regiment
Zeppelins, 46
Saxony, Kingdom of, 16
Saysbusch, Castle of
Galicia, 5
Scheffer, Thassilo von, 116
Scheidemann, Philipp, 188
Scheler, Max
School of Wisdom, 123
Scherman, Lucian, 116
Schickele, René, 216
Schlesinger, Richard, 85
Schleswig, House of, xxix
Schleswig-Holstein, 146
Schmitt, Carl, 85, 106, 107, 197
and Prince Rohan, 134
critique of expropriation proposal of 1926, 107
Unabhängigkeit der Richter, Gleichheit vor dem Gesetz und Gewährleistung des Privateigentums nach der Weimarer Verfassung. Ein Rechtsgutachten zu den Gesetzentwürfen über die Vermögensauseinandersetzung mit den früher regverenden Fürstenhäusern (1926), 106
Schnitzler, Arthur, 86
Schönbrunn, Palace of, 34
Schrenck, Edith von, 186
Schuman, Robert, 96
Schuschnigg, Kurt, 83
Schutzstaffel
neo-aristocratic ideas in, 181
Schwarzenberg, Countess Ida, 134
Schweitzer, Albert, 52
Schwob, Marcel, 114
Scotland, xxxvii
Sebastianutti, Guglielmo, 32
Secession, 187
self, sense of
vitalism, xliv
self-ethnography, 10
self-fashioning, 6
self-government
and sexual analogy for in Joseph Roth’s Capuchin Vault, 70
versus alien rule, xxviii
West Indian case for, 232
selfie
genre of portraiture, 39
self-representation, 7
Semi-Gotha
Nazi ideas of nobility, 199
senator
Russian, xxiv
sentimentalism
elites, 37
sentiments, 242
serendipitous aristocracy, 77
serfdom, 160
Sergei Alexandrovich, Grand Duke of Russia, 30
Seton-Watson, Hugh
perception of eastern Europe as exotic, 44
Shaw, George Bernard, 218
Shawn, Ted, 117
Shklovsky, Victor, 244
Shub, Esfir’, Padenie dinastii Romanovykh (1927), 34
Siegesallee, 100
Silverberg, Paul
funding of Paneuropa movement, 90
Simplicissimus, 104
Sintra
Convention of, xxiv
Skriabin, Alexander, 126
slavery
abolition of, xxiii
as source of capital of humanitarians, 52
Bloomsbury, 220
German Romantics’ critique of, 14
Saint-Domingue uprising, 14
serfdom in the Russian Empire, 148
Slavic, 26
Slavic kingdom
idea of, 69
SMS Novara, 13
Smyrna, 75
social network, 73
socialism, xxii, xxix, 28, 44, 72, 89, 94, 125, 130, 133, 146, 187, 188, 207, 226
cultural heritage, 248
French, 94
postsocialism, 247
urban unrest, 102
socialism, international, 113
Society of Free Philosophy
Keyserling, Hermann, 130
soft power
Cold War context of, 96
Solf, Wilhelm, 51
solidarity
idea of western Europe, 127
Soloviev, Vladimir, 126
Song of Igor, 223
South Africa
Tolstoyanism, 132
Soviet Union, xx, xxii, xxix, 34, 80, 107, 118, 121, 162, 168, 173, 181, 183, 196, 201, 202, 204, 233, 237, 246, 254, 276, 297
as alternative civilization, 122
emigration to, 43
spectacle
celebrity, 6
Speer, Albert, 100
Spender, Stephen, 217
Sphere, 44
Sphinx
representation of, 113
Springer, Hinrich, 117
Srbik, Knight Heinrich von, 134
SS
idea of chivalry in, 198
St. Denis, Ruth, 117
St. Maurice, 185
Stackelberg, Baron Otto Magnus von, 151
staff, 37
state, xxxv, 123, 127, 142, 154, 158, 159, 177, 178, 179, 188, 189, 200
bureaucratic, and Friedrich II’s idea of, 161
enemies of, 137
status, xxiv, xxix, 5, 12, 13, 44, 84, 86, 108, 119, 120, 133, 137, 169, 178, 184, 199, 216, 238, 247
aristocratic, xxxvii
derecognition, 139
Ste Pierre, Abbé de, A Project for Settling an Everlasting Peace in Europe (1714), 81
Stenbock Fermor, Nils, 159
Sternberg family, 69
Sternberg, Joseph von, 34
Sternberg, Joseph von, The Great Waltz (1938), 35
Stettenheim, Kurt von
fictional character in Joseph Roth’s Capuchin Vault, 69
Stevenson, Robert Louis
as globetrotter, 35
stigmatization, 171
Strakosch-Giesler, Maria
anthroposophical designs of Veltheim’s chapel, 114
stratum, xxxvi
Strauß, Richard, 116
Stroheim, Erich von, 34
student fraternities, 185
students, xxxiii
successor states, xl
Süddeutsche Monatshefte, 193
Sudeten Germans, 105
Suez Canal, 35
Suhrkamp, Peter, 117
Suresnes palace, 186
surrealism, French, 114
Sweden, xxv
symbols, xxx
sympathy
wartime, 39
systems
philosophy, xliv
Tacitus, 205
Tag von Potsdam, xxii
Tallinn Cathedral, 150
Taube family, 146
Taube, Baron Mikhail, 140
Perpetual Peace or Perpetual War? Thoughts on the League of Nations, 153
Towards the Great Catastrophe (1928), 154
Tchirsky family, 69
technology
dehumanization, 184
detachment, 45
gender, 169
print culture, 7
Queen Victoria, 169
transport, 3
territories, control over, xl
Teutonic Knights
Nazi ideology, 200
Thadden, Elisabeth von, 117
theatre, 17
Theotiskaner Order, 114
Thetford Forest, 57
Third Weimar
Kessler´s project of (1911), 218
Thomas Cook, 35
Thule society, 191
Thurn und Taxis, Gustav von, 191
Tiepolo, Giambattista, 26
toleration, xl
Toller, Ernst, 102
Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe, The Leopard (1957), 249
Torlonia, family of, xxxvii
total justification
Guy Debord, 28
tragic landscapes, 63
Transehe-Roseneck, Astaf, 152
translation, 206
transliteration, 167
transnationalism, 139, 201, 214, 236
Cold War context of, 96
dissidence, 239
elite, xxiv
interwar queer culture, 217
memory, 208
Nazi ideology, 192
revolutionary movements, 235
taste, 223
Trauttmannsdorff family, 69
treason, 38
Treaty of Rome, xlv
Trotta family, name of fictional family in Joseph Roth’s novels Radetzkymarsch and Capichin Vault, 69
Tsarskoe selo, 37
Tucholsky, Kurt, 100
Turin, xxii
Uexkuell, Jakob von, 186
Ulan Guards, 3
Ungern family, 162
union
in the work of Aurel Popovici, 74
Union de la Noblesse Russe, 105
Union Intellectuelle Française, 124
Unionists, 16
Unitarian Church, 52
United States, xxxi, 4, 15, 16, 27, 72, 96, 117, 118, 125, 126, 156, 173, 201, 204, 208, 209, 216, 236, 242
Unruh, Fritz von, 61
Uppsala, University of, 153
Vaihinger, Hans, 133
Valéry, Paul, 135
value
and culture, xxvi
class, xxiii
conversion of, 220
currency, 166
documents, 4
Georg Simmel’s theory of, 102
Hobbes’s idea of, 149
name, 107
public, 29
Simmel’s idea of, 244
vanished kingdoms, 43
Velàzquez, Diego, 26
Veltheim, Baron Hans-Hasso von, xxv, 46, 47, 60, 102, 102, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 138, 255, 273, 313
Veltheim, Carl Christian Septimus von
and German auxiliary armies in the Saint-Domingue uprising, 118
Veltheim, Hans Hasso
Indian travel diaries of, 122
Vereshchagin, Vasili, 28
Versailles, Treaty of, xxiv, xxxi, xxxvii, xli, xliv, 58, 225
demands for revision of, 196
Polish corridor, 94
prohibition of German-Austrian union, 71
viceroys, Spanish, 24
Vichy France, 201
Vienna State Opera, 32
Vieth von Golßenau, Arnold
real name of Ludwig Renn, 62
vitalism, xliv
Vittorio Emmanuele III, King of Italy, 201
Vogeler, Heinrich, 43
Vokrug sveta, 182
VOKS, Soviet cultural organization for foreign travellers, 122
Volta Congresses, 202
Voltaire, xliii
Votivkirche, 9
Vu, 33
Waldstein, Count Karl, 134
war crimes, xxxvii
war guilt
and Versailles, 83
Warburg, Max, 91
Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, 214
Weber, Eugen, 142
Weltbühne, Die, 60
Wiener Freimaurer-Zeitung, 85
Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Ulrich von, 51
Wilde, Oscar, 113
Wilhelm of Habsburg, 5
Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, 24
Williams, Eric, Capitalism and Slavery (1944), 232
Williams, Raymond, 210
Windsor, House of, xxx
Winter Palace, 154
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 244
women’s suffrage, xxi
World Economic Forum, 38
world fairs, 27
Wrangel, Baron, 178
Yale Review, 67
Yale University Press, 33
Yalta Conference, xxi
Yeats, W.B.
Theosophical Society, 126
Yelisseev, Grigory, 38
Yiddish, 137
Young plan, 93
Yradier, Sébastien, 17
Yucatán, 32
Yugoslavia, Kingdom of, xxix
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