1st Edition
Portraits of Old Russia Imagined Lives of Ordinary People, 1300-1745
335 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
335 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book introduces readers to a little-known place and time in world history – early modern Russia, from its beginnings as Muscovy, in the fourteenth century, through the reign of Peter I (1689-1725) – by portraying the lives of representative individuals from the major levels of the society of that era. The portraits, written by professional historians, are imaginative reconstructions or... Read more
I: Members of Ruling Families; 1: Anna Koltovskaia; 2: Memoir of a Tatar Prince; 3: Gleb Vasilievich; II: Government Servitors; 4: A Dialogue Between Two Seventeentn- Century Boyars; 5: The Power of Knowledge; 6: Larka the Clerk; III: Military Personnel; 7: “My Brilliant Career”; 8: The Life of a Foreign Mercenary Officer; 9: Vasilii Zotov; IV: Church Prelates; 10: A Seventeenth-Century Prelate; 11: Vasilii Kalika, Archbishop of Novgorod (r. 1330–52); V: Monks; 12: Holy Images for the Grand Prince; 13: Three Scholars at the Kirillo-Belozersk Monastery; 14: Greeks in Seventeenth-Century Russia; 15: Akakii Balandin of Novgorod-Volotovo and Solovki Monasteries (1526–95); VI: Provincial Landowners, Artisans, and Townspeople; 16: Provincial Landowners as Litigants; 17: Artisans; 18: A Poor Townswoman Accused of Witchcraft; VII: Siberian Explorer and Trader; 19: S.U. Remezov, Cossack Adventurer, and the Opening of Siberia; 20: A Siberian Trader; VIII: Peasants, Slaves, Serfs, and Holy Fools; 21: The Parfiev Family; 22: Muscovite Lives; 23: Dunia, a Fool for Christ
Biography
Donald Ostrowski, Marshall T. Poe
