The Russian Empire 1450–1801

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OXFORD HISTORY OF EARLY MODERN EUROPE General Editor: R. J. W. EVANS ...

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The Russian Empire 1450 – 1801 NANCY SHIELDS KOLLMANN 1 ...

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Dedicated to Edward L. Keenan (1935–2015) ...

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Preface This book is dedicated to my graduate mentor, Edward L. Keenan (1935–2015). This book hardly approaches what he could ha ...

picture, Professor Pritsak introduced me to the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ukrainian history within it, a ...

Table of Contents List of Illustrations xi List of Maps xiii Introduction: The Russian Empire 1450– 1801 1 Prologue: The Chronol ...

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Confessionalization in a Multi-ethnic Empire Maintaining Orthodoxy Nobility, Culture, and Intellectual Life Conclus ...

List of Maps Vegetation zones, Russian empirec.1790. Modeled on a map from Allen F. Chew,An Atlas of Russian History: Eleven Ce ...

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Introduction The Russian Empire 1450– 1801 How to describe an early modern empire over more than three centuries? So many region ...

and in the realities of geography, distance, and sparse demography. Furthermore, research on the Russian empire was energized by ...

and particularly for slave labor—were met by age-old maritime and overland trade routes, most notably the Silk Road that travers ...

Russian case, such a supranational ideology does not exclusively identify itself with the hierarchs and institutions of the domi ...

Afinal issue in introducing this work is the question of why Russia created empire. It is unfashionable these days for historian ...