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    Peter the Great and the West in Russian Culture and State

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    In memoriam

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    The passing of Marc Raeff, like that of any scholar of his magnitude, means the passing of an individual but also the passing of a generation. More than any other historian of Russia in the United States, Raeff was the link with the Russian emigration and with Europe as well. Raeff was part of the first generation of historians of Russia to be trained under the direction of Michael Karpovich at Harvard after the Second World War, a generation that included Richard Pipes, Martin Malia, and man..

    Princes Cherkasskii or Circassian Murzas

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    RésuméLa place des Kabardes parmi les boyars russes, 1570-1700.À partir de Pierre le Grand, l’élite dirigeante a compté dans ses rangs beaucoup d’éléments non russes -- Allemands de la Baltique et Polonais, entre autres. Mais dans des temps plus reculés, elle a connu des clans d’autres nationalités. Ainsi, entre le milieu du xvie siècle et la fin du xviie siècle, le groupe le plus important était formé par des Circasssiens. Parents à l’origine de la deuxième femme d’Ivan le Terrible, les princes circassiens de Kabarda se sont introduits dans la famille des Romanov par le biais du mariage et ont atteint le faîte de leur puissance et de leur fortune. Bien que les sources russes ne fassent pas mention de leurs origines, leur généalogie telle qu’elle est présentée dans les Rodoslovnye knigi montre qu’ils ont toujours eu conscience de leur identité. Et leurs origines exotiques n’ont pas échappé aux diplomates européens. Le déclin de Kabarda et du fort russe de Terskij gorodok, situé de nos jours au Daghestan, mit fin à l’émigration vers Moscou et favorisa l’assimilation au xviiie siècle de ces familles, qui devinrent les princes Čerkasskij.AbstractThe Russian ruling elite included many non-Russians from the time of Peter the Great onwards -- Baltic Germans, Poles, and other, but in earlier times it also included clans from other national groups. From the middle of the sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth the most important were the Circassians. Originally relatives of the second wife of Ivan the Terrible, the Circassian princes of Kabarda married into the Romanov family and reached the pinnacle of power and wealth. Though Russian sources do not comment on their origins, their genealogy in the Rodoslovnye knigi preserves evidence of their continued awareness of their identity. European diplomats also noted their exotic origins. The decline in importance of Kabarda and the Russian fort at Terskii gorodok in present-day Dagestan led to the end of emigration to Moscow and the assimilation of the families as princes Cherkasskii in the eighteenth century

    N.N. Petrukhintsev, Vnutrennaia politika Anny Ioannovny (1730‑1740), [Anna Ioannovna’s domestic policy (1730‑1740)]

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    In recent years Russian historians have filled in many of the gaping holes in Russian historiography. One of the chronological gaps is the years in the eighteenth century between the death of Peter the Great and the beginning of the reign of Catherine the Great. The decade and a half after Peter’s death is particularly critical because it saw the consolidation of his work and the failure of almost all attempts to revise it. Nikolai Petrukhintsev’s remarkable study of the 1730’s, encyclopedic ..

    James Cracraft, The Revolution of Peter the Great

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    The reign of Peter the Great saw enormous changes in Russian culture and the Russian state, if not in the foundations of society. James Cracraft believes that these changes amount to a revolution in Russian culture. That revolution brought to Russia “Europeanization” which in that time was “equivalent to modernization” (158). The cultural revolution in turn made possible lesser revolutions in other areas of Russian life, for new institutions required new cultural practices. The book is really..

    Possevino and the death of tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich

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    L’histoire selon laquelle, en 1581, le tsarevič Ivan Ivanovič a été tué par son père Ivan le Terrible fait partie intégrante de l’histoire russe. Cependant, Moscovia d’Antonio Possevino SJ, qui est la seule source contemporaine, n’a été publiée pour la première fois qu’en 1586. La partie concernant la mort du tsarevič a été rédigée quelques années après la survenue de l’événement et entre en contradiction avec d’autres informations du livre. La correspondance, publiée plus tard, de Possevino avec ses supérieurs à Rome révèle qu’il prit cette histoire pour une rumeur et n’y prêta pas foi. En effet, rien ne prouve de façon irréfutable qu’Ivan ait tué son fils, de quelque manière que ce soit, intentionnelle ou accidentelle.The story of the 1581 death of tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich at the hands of his father, Ivan the Terrible, is a fixture of Russian history. Yet the only contemporary source is the Moscovia of Antonio Possevino, SJ.m first published in 1586. The relevant chapter was composed several years later, and is inconsistent with other information in the book. Possevino’s then unpublished correspondence with his superiors in Rome reveals that he regarded the story as rumor and did not believe it. There is no reliable evidence that Ivan killed his son, intentionally or accidentally

    Avant-propos

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    Nous présentons ici des textes d’un colloque intitulé « Assessing the new Soviet archival sources » qui a eu lieu à l’Université de Yale aux États-Unis en mai 1997. Ce colloque a pu se tenir grâce au soutien d’un certain nombre d’institutions que nous tenons à remercier ici, notamment l’Université de Yale, le Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, l’Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici et la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. Hormis les auteurs de cet avant-propos, un certain nombr..

    Richard Hellie, Slavery in Russia, 1450–1725. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. 776 pp.

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