Cyrillic script 301
Czechs 42
Dagestanis 97
Dale, Stephen 192
Damascus 32
Daniil (Metropolitan) 250, 252, 255
Daniil Aleksandrovich (Prince of Moscow) 48
Daniilovich dynasty 48, 130–1, 147– 50
Danube River 58, 105, 236
Daoism 36
Dashkova, Ekaterina 282, 432, 440, 444, 446
Daugavpils/DvinskseeDünaburg
Davis, Natalie Zemon 167
death 27, 29, 161, 172, 227, 347, 367
debt 223–4, 239, 241, 312, 316, 328, 332–4,
364, 394
Decembrist Revolution 443
decentralization 17, 173, 306, 326, 458;see also
centralization
defensive lines 13, 67–8, 87–8, 90, 92–3, 95–7,
103, 125, 163, 219, 335–6, 356–7,
361;see alsofortresses
deism 412, 440
“Deluge”, the 76, 79, 83
Demidov, Prokofii A. 440– 1
Demidovs, the 85, 319–20, 380
demography/demographics 2, 101, 166, 337,
357, 364, 373;see alsopopulation
Demus, Otto 133
Denisov, Semen
Vinograd rossiiskii 418
Denmark 13, 52, 281, 298
alliances with 12
Dennison, Tracy 168, 367– 8
Department of Alien Spiritual Affairs 401
Derbent 16, 84
Derzhavin, Gavrila 282, 377, 437–8, 443
Desna River 45, 52
Desnitskii, Semen 349
despotism 5, 7, 460;see alsoautocracy
Deulino, Treaty of 13
Devier, Anton 277
devshirmesystem (Ottoman Empire) 148
d’iaki208, 215–16, 302;see alsoadministration
andbureaucracyandofficials
Dimsdale, Thomas 347
diplomacy 12–13, 15, 17, 70, 130, 136, 141,
178, 182, 240, 324;see alsoalliances
Directorate of Water Communications 342
disease 27–30, 32–3, 39, 48, 182–3, 346–7,
354, 387
malaria 29
measles 29
plague 27–30, 117, 182–3, 200, 279, 346– 7
scarlet fever 29
Siberian pox 28
smallpox 28–9, 347
typhus 29, 346
venereal 29
distance 2, 66, 167, 171, 352
“problem of”1, 65, 179, 181
District Treasuries 317
diversity (in empires) vii, 1–2, 4, 6, 10–11,
34 – 5, 41, 53, 55, 59, 63, 78–80,
84, 91, 95, 98–9, 118, 120, 129,
222, 225, 232, 239, 262, 298, 355,
358, 373, 382, 384, 430, 435,
450 – 2, 457–8, 460–1;see also
“empire of difference”and“politics
of difference”
Divovych, Semen
“Conversation between Great Russia and
Little Russia” 110
Dmitrii Donskoi (Grand Prince) 249
Dmitrii Ivanovich (Prince, son of Ivan IV)
148, 150
Dmitrov 181, 237, 391, 393– 4
Dnieper River 3, 14, 24–5, 32, 42, 45, 52,
58 – 9, 67, 71–2, 75–6, 78, 95, 103,
106, 236, 298, 342, 344, 357,
383 – 4, 452
Dniester River 18, 84, 105, 114, 236,
342, 357
Dolgorukovs, Princes, the 277, 280
Domar, Evsey 167, 183
Domostroi259, 435;seeCossacks, Don
Don River 25, 44, 58–9, 71, 77, 95–6, 166,
236, 310, 342, 357, 407
Donets River 68, 103
Dorogobuzh 180
Dorpat 52, 191
Dorpat/Tartu 50, 116– 17
University of 117, 313, 403
Dostoevsky, Fedor 388, 414
Dubno 385
dueling 139, 168, 347
Dünaburg 14, 120
Durkheim, Émile 141
Dutch Republic, the 31, 33, 36, 52, 191,
378, 451
Dvina Rivers (Western, Northern) 25, 47, 52–3,
60, 144, 166, 170, 189, 202–3,
231, 323, 384
Dzhungars 88, 91, 94
East Slavs vii, 9, 33, 41–2, 44–5, 48–9, 51, 53,
55 – 8, 60, 62–5, 69, 73, 86, 88, 98,
110, 146, 169, 211, 223, 225–6,
228, 232, 298–9, 329–30, 358,
424, 430, 450, 459
culture of the 132, 173, 244, 248, 259
history of 78
movement/mobility of 80, 91, 101, 222
Eastern Orthodoxy 244– 7
Churches of
Armenian 98, 197, 385
Bulgarian 244
Byzantine 130, 133, 244
Coptic 244Index 469