The article is devoted to the existence of some elements of the Judahite monarchy after the fall of Judah in 586 and the eradication of this monarchy as an institution of power. In the first part the author presents a reconstruction of practices and phenomena associated with the monarchy (referred to collectively as the Judahite monarchic idiom) before 586. He then analyses the presence of its elements in the Persian province of Yehud on the basis of sources making it possible to reconstruct the events in the province in the sixth and fifth centuries (Zechariah, Aggeus, Ezra, Nehemiah). The presence of the idiom is also described in the literary traditions originating in Yehud in that period (narratives about Moses, the so-called Deuteronomistic historiography, the Chronicles). Next the author proposes - on the basis of the theory of collective memory as well as results of studies of the Yehud society - a reconstruction of transformations of the idiom in the period. Drawing on studies by Jan and Aleida Assmann, the author formulates a thesis whereby in the first stage of the Persian period the Judahite idiom functioned in cultural memory. As a result, elements of the monarchy could appear in political practice. Then, thanks to the literary activity of the Yehudian elites, the pre-exile elements of the Judahite idiom became part of the Judahites' cultural memory, a "figure of memory" of which were texts from the Hebrew Bible. The processes influenced literary works in later periods, when the Hasmonean dynasty and Herod used them to legitimise their rule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]