The Russian Empire 1450–1801
1770s, with a 1783 decree opening up private publication. Still, censorship was potential: owners of private presses were requir ...
rest of the century, awarding Russia control of territories brought by defecting Orthodox princes (Novgorod Seversk, Chernigov, ...
posed in kaftans like Polish Sarmatian noblemen; portraits were restrained and dignified, even iconographic, or surrounded by or ...
1618 established a fourteen-year armistice, the Commonwealth not yielding on territory (Smolensk, the Seversk lands) or on Crown ...
Figure 21.1Dmitrii Levitskii’s portrait of the botanist P. A. Demidov demonstrates the fruits of the nobility’s access to Europe ...
Russia ended the seventeenth century in a strong position, despite Crimean failures. The 1686 Eternal Peace marked the moment wh ...
Figure 21.2Prince A. B. Kurakin used this 1801 portrait by Borovikovskii to demonstrate his political loyalties and achievements ...
for Russia but were not regionally significant. Russia’s success on the Baltic masks the failures of Peter I’s ambitions in the ...
employed as poets and translators in the Academy of Science and court, or employed in military and civil service, there were lim ...
power of the monarch, army, and noble government. Peter I went on to win treaties of cooperation—Prussia (1720), Turkey (1720), ...
patriarchy, while the institution of serfdom was hardly ever questioned. Patriarchy within families was to be softened by love a ...
Dniester to the Kuban (Treaties of Küçük Kaynarca 1774 and Jassy 1792). Valuable new Black Sea ports and passage through the Bos ...
did clubs, such as the English Club, founded in St. Petersburg in 1770 with a membership of Russians, English, nobles, professio ...
PART I ASSEMBLING THE EMPIRE ...
published in 1793 in a journal edited by Princess Dashkova, Catherine ordered its entire print run destroyed and Dashkova dismis ...
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through moral reform. Scholars have explored how eighteenth-century intellectuals deployed the Orthodox theme of Russia as a wor ...
1 Land, People, and Global Context By the eighteenth century the Russian empire extended across forest and steppe from eastern E ...
On cultural changes in Peter I’s time: James Cracraft,The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture(Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Pr ...
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