Boston: James R. Osgood & Co, 1872. — 312 p. Edna Dean Proctor (1829-1923), an American poet and traveler. In 1867, she visited St. Petersburg, and Moscow, traveled along the Volga (Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Samara, Kamyshin), then Rostov-on-Don, Azov, Crimea, Odessa, and Moldova. As a result of this trip, in 1872, a real collection of essays, "Russian Journey", was published, in...
Taylor & Francis, 2017. — ISBN: 9781317086529. Notes on Muscovite Affairs (Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii) (1549) was a Latin book by Baron Sigismund von Herberstein on the geography, history, and customs of the Grand Duchy of Muscovy. The book was the main early source of knowledge about Russia in Western Europe.
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 224 p. Modern Russia's turbulent relations with its Muslim frontiers date back centuries. Indeed the nineteenth century, when the Muslim Caucasus first came under Russian rule, witnessed many of the historical antecedents to today's violent confrontations. With this in mind, On The Religious Frontier examines the history of Muslim Azerbaijan under Christian...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 356 p. This is the first comprehensive study of the origins and early uses of Russian writing. Simon Franklin examines a wide range of writings, from the parchment manuscripts of the Orthodox Church, through the Novgorod birch-bark documents, to inscriptions on stone and metal. He analyzes the texts from a variety of perspectives, and...
Harper Collins Books, 2009. — 425 p. In this sweeping history of vodka scion Pyotr Smirnov and his family, distinguished journalist Linda Himelstein plumbs a great riddle of Russian history through the story of a humble serf who rose to create one of the most celebrated business empires the world has ever known. At the center of this vivid narrative, Pyotr Smirnov comes to life...
The History Press, 2018. — 240 p. The Crimean War 1853-1856 was the most destructive conflict of Queen Victoria’s reign, the outcome of which was indecisive; most historians see it as an irrelevant, unnecessary conflict despite Florence Nightingale and the Charge of the Light Brigade. Here Hugh Small shows how the history of the Crimean War has been manipulated to conceal...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 564 p. The Crimean War 1854-1856 is one of history's most compelling subjects. It encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and maladministration on a grand scale. It created a heroic myth out of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade and, in Florence Nightingale, it produced one of history's great heroes. New weapons were introduced; trench...
Stroud, UK : The History Press, 2011. — 224 p. The day after the Battle of Balaklava, the Russians attempted an armed reconnaissance of the Allied right flank aimed at the exposed Inkermann position, but the remnants of the British 2nd Division bloodily repulsed them. The battle lasted less than 12 hours but was one of the bloodiest engagements in European history. While the...
Cornell University Press, 2001. — 307 p. Many Americans and Europeans have for centuries viewed Russia as a despotic country in which people are inclined to accept suffering and oppression. What are the origins of this stereotype of Russia as a society fundamentally apart from nations in the West, and how accurate is it? In the first book devoted to answering these questions,...
St. Martin’s Press, 1987. — 289 p. In this classic account of the Crimean War, Alan Palmer puts the myths and realities of The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale, the rivalry between Lord Cardigan and Lord Lucan and the patriotic fervour of Imperial Britain into perspective. The Crimea campaign was a story of Great Power politics and diplomacy. In Palmer's...
Scarecrow Press, 2006. — 523 p. — (The A to Z Guide Series). Every war leaves an imprint in history, but few have had such a pervasive impact in so many respects as the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Politically, it fatally weakened the Russian Empire while allowing Japan to follow more dangerous paths. Diplomatically, it shook the power balance in Europe and reshaped it in...
Boston: D. Estes and C.E. Lauriat, 1880. — 400 p. M. Alfred Rambaud, made its appearance, it was immediately welcomed by the press of both countries with the most flattering approval, and it was also crowned by the French Academy. The London Athenaeum says of it : " We have the ' Histoire de la Russie/ by M. Alfred Rambaud, who, by his 'Russie E pique' and other publications,...
Boston: D. Estes and C.E. Lauriat, 1880. — 400 p. M. Alfred Rambaud, made its appearance, it was immediately welcomed by the press of both countries with the most flattering approval, and it was also crowned by the French Academy. The London Athenaeum says of it : " We have the ' Histoire de la Russie/ by M. Alfred Rambaud, who, by his 'Russie E pique' and other publications,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 359 p. Jussi Jalonen’s On Behalf of the Emperor, On Behalf of the Fatherland approaches the Russian suppression of the Polish Uprising in 1830-1831 from a new transnational perspective. The Russian mobilization involved people from the farthest reaches of the Empire, and one notable group was the Finnish Battalion of the Imperial Guard. For...
Brill, 2005. — 672 p. — (History of Warfare, v. 29). This volume examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, economic, and cultural context. Through the use of research from newly opened Russian and little used Japanese sources the editors assert that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first global conflict in the 20th...
Translation by Lydia Black — University of Alaska Press, 2015. — 520 p. Russia first encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire eighteenth century. For centuries since, cartographers have struggled to define and develop the enormous region comprising northeastern Asia, the North Pacific, and Alaska. The forces of nature and...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 288 p. In the winter of 1812, Napoleon's army retreated from Moscow under appalling conditions, hunted by three separate Russian armies, its chances of survival apparently nil. By late November Napoleon had reached the banks of the River Berezina - the last natural obstacle between his army and the safety of the Polish frontier. But instead of finding the...