The Russian Empire 1450–1801

expedition in the 1790s to Crimea and the south produced striking paintings of native peoples (Kalmyks, Tatars, Cossacks), mount ...

classical look; nobles and the imperial family erected similar churches on their estates, as did factory owners in industrial an ...

In non-Russian capitals, grand neo-Russian cathedrals dominated city skylines in Helsinki (Cathedral of the Dormition 1868), Vil ...

open spaces. Even in foreign centers—Carlsbad, Vienna, and Copenhagen in Europe, Port Arthur in the Far East, the holy city of J ...

reform and decentralization of political power—also made the Ottoman empire vulnerable. How was Russia able to amass such state- ...

Most of the people on whom Russia depended for local control (Russian gentry, bands of Cossacks, co-opted Siberian elites) did n ...

“Eurasian empire”was different, each“empire of difference”was different, but this approach to political control worked well for ...

led a monumental codification of law, resulting not only in a chronological“complete collection”of laws from 1649 to 1825 (in ov ...

Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700– 1917 (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1997), 9–26. Visions of empir ...

Index absolutism 11, 38, 77, 135, 269, 276–8, 428 Academy of Arts 376, 381, 389 Academy of Sciences, the 274–5, 284, 312, 337 – ...

Arabia 32, 458 Aral Sea 46, 195 architecture 10–11, 43, 73, 107, 110–11, 141 – 7, 157, 158, 204, 228, 251, 253, 272, 274–6, 282, ...

Belgrade 32 Beloozero 50, 177, 202, 250 Beloozero, Lake 342 Bel’skiis, Princes, the 149, 210– 11 Belyi Iar 69 Bender 401 Bentley ...

Buriats 63–5, 85–6, 89, 287, 401– 2 Bursa 32, 235 Bushkovitch, Paul 242, 250, 252, 262, 277, 365, 369, 398 Byzantine culture/sty ...

Chesme, naval battle of 17, 276, 298, 452 children 227, 319, 364, 381–2, 395, 419, 431 – 2 China 2, 12, 21, 25–6, 32–4, 84, 89, ...

Cossack Hetmanatesee underHetmanate, the Cossack rebellion, the 14, 68, 72, 75–8, 110, 123, 162, 167, 172, 192, 230–1, 242, 335, ...

Cyrillic script 301 Czechs 42 Dagestanis 97 Dale, Stephen 192 Damascus 32 Daniil (Metropolitan) 250, 252, 255 Daniil Aleksandrov ...

Eastern Orthodoxy (cont.) Georgian 244 Greek 244, 255 Syrian 244 Patriarchs of 247–8, 257, 422 Alexandria 244 Antioch 244 Consta ...

flight from 58, 68;see alsoserfs, runaway exemption from 60 environment, the 66, 225, 338 degradation of 33, 39 Erichsen, Vigili ...

foreigners in Russia 96, 105, 112–14, 116, 141, 150, 187, 190, 197–8, 202, 204–6, 216, 239, 295, 299, 325, 331, 336, 381, 386, 3 ...

strategies of 7, 34–5, 107, 335, 352, 387, 390;see alsorulers, strategies of government, the 193, 212, 274, 306–7, 311, 399, 431 ...