Author(s): Paul Bushkovitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Preface
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Introduction
Prologue: Court politics and reform
CHAPTER 1 Tsar and boyars: structures and values
CEREMONIAL
THE BOYARS AND THEIR VALUES
NEW TRENDS
CHAPTER 2 The ascendancy of Artamon Matveev, 1671–1676
MATVEEV’S RISE
MATVEEV IN POWER
CHAPTER 3 The reign of Tsar Fyodor, 1676–1682
THE RISE OF PRINCE V. V. GOLITSYN
TSAR FYODR’S EMANCIPATION
CHAPTER 4 The regency of Sofia, 1682–1689
THE REVOLT OF THE MUSKETEERS
SOFIA AND GOLITSYN IN POWER
CHAPTER 5 Peter in power, 1689–1699
THE AZOV CAMPAIGNS
TRAVEL AND REBELLION
CHAPTER 6 Peter and the favorites: Golovin and Menshikov, 1699–1706
WAR AND BOYARS
THE NORTHERN WAR
THE RISE OF MENSHIKOV
MENSHIKOV AND SHEREMETEV
CHAPTER 7 Poltava and the new gubernias, 1707–1709
THE NEW GUBERNIAS
THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR
CHAPTER 8 The Senate and the eclipse of Menshikov, 1709–1715
CHAPTER 9 The affair of the tsarevich, 1715–1717
CHAPTER 10 The end of Aleksei Petrovich, 1718
Epilogue and conclusion, 1718–1725
ARISTOCRATS AND DIGNITARIES
CULTURE AND POWER
CONCLUSION
Bibliography
PRINCIPAL ARCHIVAL SOURCES
REFERENCE WORKS
PUBLISHED SOURCES
SECONDARY LITERATURE
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