The Russian Empire 1450–1801

balance the available evidence differently than in this book, which argues that for early modern conditions, strong centers cann ...

discourses and models of governing and cultural life. We explore how the official discourse of empire was renewed, how governing ...

Press, 2006). On“separate deals”: Brian J. Boeck,Imperial Boundaries: Cossack Commu- nities and Empire-Building in the Age of Pe ...

Prologue The Chronological Arc This work takes a thematic approach in general chronological order, with more detailed event-base ...

resources, resulting in the endurance over the early modern centuries of a very simple social organization, discussed in Chapter ...

languages including Ukrainian, Belarus’an, Tatar, Siberian native languages, Polish, and German. New European trends in art, arc ...

To European and Eurasian neighbors, Russia was just beginning to appear of interest. In thefifteenth century central European po ...

rest of the century, awarding Russia control of territories brought by defecting Orthodox princes (Novgorod Seversk, Chernigov, ...

1618 established a fourteen-year armistice, the Commonwealth not yielding on territory (Smolensk, the Seversk lands) or on Crown ...

Russia ended the seventeenth century in a strong position, despite Crimean failures. The 1686 Eternal Peace marked the moment wh ...

for Russia but were not regionally significant. Russia’s success on the Baltic masks the failures of Peter I’s ambitions in the ...

power of the monarch, army, and noble government. Peter I went on to win treaties of cooperation—Prussia (1720), Turkey (1720), ...

Dniester to the Kuban (Treaties of Küçük Kaynarca 1774 and Jassy 1792). Valuable new Black Sea ports and passage through the Bos ...

PART I ASSEMBLING THE EMPIRE ...

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1 Land, People, and Global Context By the eighteenth century the Russian empire extended across forest and steppe from eastern E ...

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springs and summers contrast to long winter freezes. The mean temperatures in January in European Russia and southern Siberia av ...

St. Petersburg and Kyiv in the west to the southern Urals, this mixed forest triangle enjoyed slightly milder winters and warmer ...

steppe and the soil becomes progressively darker and richer. This rich, broad swath of“black earth,”stretches from modern day Uk ...