The Russian Empire 1450–1801

rituals/ceremonies (cont.) coronation 130–1, 135, 149, 152, 280 legitimizing 129–30, 136, 153 religious 130, 133, 140–1, 254, 25 ...

reindeer herdsmen: from west to east, Samoyedic-speaking peoples, Tunguz (Man- chu) and paleo-Asiatic speakers Chukchi, Kamchada ...

St. Joseph of Volokolamsk 250– 1 Rule 250 – 1 St. Michael Klopskii 252 St. Nicholas chapel 228 St. Paraskeva 259 St. Peter 133, ...

29,000 in an estimated population of Russians and other European migrants of about 200,000. East Slavic populations in Siberia o ...

serfs (cont.) ownership of 215–16, 220, 231, 319, 321, 359 – 60, 363–8, 382, 432, 443 rules/regulations applying to 105 runaway ...

A word here should be said about nomads, as they play an important role in Russian history, whether as conquered subjects or riv ...

Smolensk campaign 215 Smotritsky, Meletii 78 Speranskii, Mikhail 348, 460 Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire 1649 ...

the seventeenth century, when Moscow began to be able to protect its steppe borderland more effectively. The Rus’palatinates of ...

state, the (cont.) and the Church 37, 135–6, 139–43, 169, 201, 244, 249, 254, 257–9, 262–3, 267, 269, 274–5, 294, 329, 349, 351, ...

Russian center were also moved in. At the same time a protective line was constructed from Kozlov to the Volga at Simbirsk, exte ...

Russian in conflict with the 67, 97, 161, 165 “service” 397 Tatishchev, V. N. 433, 444 Tauride 115 Tauride Muslim Spiritual Auth ...

BASHKIRIA Since the tenth century Bashkirs are recorded inhabiting the forested steppe east of the Volga; their traditional land ...

towns and cities (cont.) Magdeburg Law towns 103, 107, 112, 121, 238, 378, 384, 459 running ofseegovernment, local townsmen 150, ...

corruption of Russian officials. When the Bashkirs turned to the Crimean Tatars for help, the Kalmyks, caught in between Crimea ...

Tver 9, 27–8, 43–4, 48–50, 70, 132, 162, 181, 199, 203, 237, 249, 311, 341, 361, 391 Ascension church 391 Tveretinov 410 uezdy86 ...

Russia the stability it required on the borderlands through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the early sixteenth cent ...

Vilnius (cont.) Cathedral of Mother of God 456 University of 122, 313 Vinius, A. A. 179, 182, 204, 240, 277 Vinnitsa 407 violenc ...

established fortresses to protect themselves from Nogai, Crimean Tatar, or Kalmyk raids and themselves lived the typical raiding ...

Zaporozhian Sich 75, 77, 95–6, 103, 105–6, 109, 111, 113–14, 307, 371 Zavadovskii, Peter 113 “Zealots of Piety”255, 257, 267, 42 ...

power accompanying the weakening of the Horde in the second half of the fourteenth century, the Grand Dukes of Lithuania claimed ...