Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 270 p. — (Series: New Studies in European History). ISBN13: 978-0-511-64150-3 eBook (NetLibrary). ISBN13: 978-0-521-51463-7 Hardback. Imperial Boundaries is a study of imperial expansion and local transformation on Russia's Don Steppe frontier during the age of Peter the Great. Brian Boeck connects the rivalry of the Russian and Ottoman...
A.-B. Nordiska Bokhandeln, Stockholm in Distribution 1979 The aim of this study is to investigate the preconditions for the administrative and judicial reforms carried out in Russia between 1715 and 1722 with special regard for the influence of Swedish administrative institutions and Swedish law upon them. An attempt has been made to include all of the central and local...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1971. — 344 p. — ISBN10: 0804707472; ISBN13: 978-0804707473. Cracraft'a book is llic first work in English specialty devoted to the ecclesiastical policy of the Tzar. The book is competently written and provides the reader with character sketches of Peter and his chief ecclesiastical consultant) Archbishop Feofan Prokopovich. It describes...
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004 - 577 c. This book examines the core verbal aspect of the Petrine revolution in Russia: “Petrine” referring to Peter I “the Great,” tsar and first emperor (lived 1672–1725), and “revolution” to encapsulate the radical changes in culture engineered by his regime. Two previous books, The Petrine Revolution in Russian...
Cambridge, London: Harvard University Press, 2003. — ix, 192 p. Many books chronicle the remarkable life of Russian tsar Peter the Great, but none analyze how his famous reforms actually took root and spread in Russia. In The Revolution of Peter the Great, James Cracraft offers a brilliant new interpretation of this pivotal era. Linking together and transcending Peter's many...
Bonnier, 2003. — 381 s. Det är juni 1709. Kriget mellan Sverige och Ryssland har pågått i nio långa år, och Karl XII:s armé belägrar den lilla staden Poltava i Ukraina. Triumftåget mot Moskva har gått i baklås, och den ryska armén under tsar Peter står endast en halvmil bort. Svenskarna har förberett sig för drabbningen och trupperna, som tidigare varit spridda över hela den...
London; Edinburg; New York: T.Nelson and Sons, 1887. — 128 p. OXE day, in the year 1697, the great Duke of Marlborough happened to be in the village of Saardam. He visited the dockyard of one Mynheer Calf, a rich shipbuilder, and was struck with the appearance of a journeyman at work there. He was a large, powerful man, dressed in a red woollen shirt and duck trowsers, with a...
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