The Russian Empire 1450–1801

overseas colonies with European emigrants. Catherine II was as aggressively popu- lationist as her European counterparts. Starti ...

often cited as the last major Crimean Tatar raid into the southern borderlands of Russia, Crimean slave emporia continued to be ...

led by a governor from a leading family and a board ofmirzyand overseen by the Russian-appointed military governor forfiscal and ...

Under the minimal oversight of a Swedish governor, the two provinces of Estland and Livland essentially maintained their histori ...

policy of maintaining diversity: it affirmed the rights and institutions of the German nobility and reversed a Swedish campaign ...

thinking about the“folk”and the collective spirit of ethnicity and culture. In Riga Herder collected and later published Estonia ...

law, deeming their local laws and privileges sufficient and superior, Catherine II strove to integrate Livland and Estland’sfisc ...

The Duchy of Courland, centered in the peninsula that forms the southern rim of the Gulf of Riga, on the other hand, was an auto ...

disputes, subordinate to a governor-general. At the gubernia level, Russian language and appeals and criminal courts were impose ...

autonomies. The Commonwealth’s Jews governed themselves with a hierarchy of communal institutions paralleling the county and nat ...

Russian authorities and subjects, and their contributions to local economies were not appreciated. Official Russian policy to Je ...

Domestically, the empire had begun to implement a rational, homogenized administrative structure in Catherine II’s reforms of th ...

14 (1990): 593–607; Serhii Plokhy,The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus(Cambri ...

PART II THE MUSCOVITE EMPIRE THROUGH THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ...

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6 Broadcasting Legitimacy One of the most visible characteristics of early modern empire was its self- representation of legitim ...

example, Sunni sultans openly made alliances with SufiMuslims; they expected religious (kadi) judges around the realm to adminis ...

intensified. Tapping intotranslatio imperiilegitimacy, several claimed mythic foreign ancestries from Europe or the Horde. Dynas ...

nexus. The intent was to record God’s providential work on earth; in Russia, chronicles were written to inscribe Russian history ...

the Menology had broader distribution. But theIlluminated Chroniclewas never reproduced, never bound, and never taken from the K ...