The Russian Empire 1450–1801

such as taverns and“pagan”holiday revelries. In all these efforts, the communi- ties physically and symbolically distinguished t ...

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

Believer groups were allowed to create compounds in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Ostensibly established as charitable foundations, ...

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

succeeded: rejected by Moscow in 1448, it became a dead letter when the Turks captured Constantinople in 1453. The 1596 Union, o ...

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

who had been educated in Jesuit schools and couldfightfire withfire began revitalizing the faith, in essence leading a confessio ...

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oversight of dioceses and parishes and mandated that bishops personally visit and inspect each parish in a two-year cycle. It ma ...

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supervisory administrative structure for them. She did, however, permit conversion from Uniate to Orthodox, which the Vatican co ...

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

monasteries), primarily in western Belarus’and Volhynia. Only in Right Bank Ukraine had it been generally eliminated. Declaring ...

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

1 (1985): 1–30 and his“Orthodoxy and Russia’s Enlightenment, 1762–1825,”in Robert L. Nichols and Theofanis George Stavrou, eds., ...

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21. Nobility, Culture, and Intellectual Life The eighteenth century has been called the“golden age of the nobility.”But who were ...

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

knowledge, critical thinking, and freedom of conscience. It was this approach that characterized much of what we see as Enlighte ...

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