Roman Maksimovich Volkov. Portrait of the Russian Tsar Alexander I, first quarter of the 19th century.

Romanticism is one of the universal strategies for understanding the world, which is based on a programmatic choice of the ideal found inside. It appears as a kind of antithesis to the normative order of classicism and the bloody drama of the French Revolution, where rivers of blood were shed under the aegis of the reason of equality and brotherhood. The impossibility of rearranging reality, forced to establish a better world in oneself. Romanticism is a belief in the best in a person. His method is idealization, attributing the best through man to nature and the universe in general. There, a subjective belief in the best is due to the spiritual experience of accepting a person, mercy, obedience to the world order. Humility before him. Fatalism. Romanticism is the pessimism of someone who knows all the same who loves, programmatically chooses Love, where the latter is understood as pity. But within romantic introversion - loneliness is an urgent fact of life, nostalgia for itself; inseparability. The time of romanticism - languor, nostalgia for the best; time of contemplative pause. In art, it was reflected mainly in painting. The first appearance from within the constructed picture. Living fabric of metaphors of signs and symbols. The style of Louis Philippe, where romantic scenes determined the plot of porcelain and bronze sculpture, can be considered a kind of continuation in decorative and applied art.Romanticism gave impetus to the appeal to national history, thereby giving rise to a parade of national awareness.