Author
Bartlett; Roger
Year
2022
Publisher
UCL Press
Language
English
ISBN
978-1-80008-238-0
Last Update
04-Nov-2024
Keywords
History ; Slavic Studies ; Philosophy
In the eighteenth century Russia was a newcomer to the familiar concert of European nations, an exciting or worrying outsider among the established powers. In 1703 Tsar Peter Alekseevich, Peter I, the Great, founded a new city, St Petersburg, at the eastern end of the Baltic Sea. Thereby, in the famous words of Russia’s national poet Aleksandr Pushkin, he ‘chopped a window through to Europe’.¹ Rus’, medieval Muscovite Russia, unified only in the fifteenth century under Grand Prince Ivan III, had developed as a successor state of the Mongol (‘Tatar’) empire of Chinggis Khan, part of the political configuration of...
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