The Russian Empire 1450–1801
of fourteen ranks each; below these ranks were, of course, dozens of lesser civil and military roles. Ranks 1–3, for example, we ...
and particularly for slave labor—were met by age-old maritime and overland trade routes, most notably the Silk Road that travers ...
secretaries (a rank awarding nobility) were of noble background; the rest had risen from non-noble status. Some achievements aut ...
Russian case, such a supranational ideology does not exclusively identify itself with the hierarchs and institutions of the domi ...
classical curriculum; in the capitals and in regional centers they spoke common languages (French, German, Russian) and engaged ...
Afinal issue in introducing this work is the question of why Russia created empire. It is unfashionable these days for historian ...
made to undermine elite families’abilities to build factions by marriage (he decreed that affianced couples should have a longer ...
balance the available evidence differently than in this book, which argues that for early modern conditions, strong centers cann ...
could own serfs for manufacturing, for example, but the possession accrued to the factory, not personally to the merchant, and P ...
discourses and models of governing and cultural life. We explore how the official discourse of empire was renewed, how governing ...
Bolotov, and Catherine II herself, wrote didactic instructions on the upbringing of their children, like counterparts in France, ...
Press, 2006). On“separate deals”: Brian J. Boeck,Imperial Boundaries: Cossack Commu- nities and Empire-Building in the Age of Pe ...
CULTURE, COHESION, AND STATE POLICY Jonathan Powis underscores the importance of lifestyle habits in defining a cohesive social ...
Prologue The Chronological Arc This work takes a thematic approach in general chronological order, with more detailed event-base ...
traditional standards. For theMirror, piety was a woman’s primary virtue, followed closely by obedience, chastity, and above all ...
resources, resulting in the endurance over the early modern centuries of a very simple social organization, discussed in Chapter ...
and playwrights such as Mikhail Lomonosov, Vasilii Petrov, Gavrila Derzhavin, and Aleksandr Sumarokov, in addition to scientific ...
languages including Ukrainian, Belarus’an, Tatar, Siberian native languages, Polish, and German. New European trends in art, arc ...
one of the earliest literary journals (Industrious Bee, 1759). Lomonosov excelled at poetry, developing the ode in particular. T ...
To European and Eurasian neighbors, Russia was just beginning to appear of interest. In thefifteenth century central European po ...
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