This first volume of the Cambridge History of Russia covers the period from early ('Kievan') Rus' to the start of Peter the Great's reign in 1689. It surveys the development of Russia through the Mongol invasions to the expansion of the Muscovite state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and deals with political, social, economic and cultural issues under the Riurikid and early Romanov rulers. The volume is organised on a primarily chronological basis, but a number of general themes are also addressed, including the bases of political legitimacy; law and society; the interactions of Russians and non-Russians; and the relationship of the state with the Orthodox Church. The international team of authors incorporates the latest Russian and Western scholarship and offers an authoritative new account of the formative 'pre-Petrine' period of Russian history, before the process of Europeanisation had made a significant impact on society and culture.
Author(s): Maureen Perrie
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 824
City: Cambridge; New York
Cover Page......Page 1
About the Book......Page 2
Title: THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF RUSSIA, Volume I - From Early Rus’ to 1689......Page 4
ISBN 0521812275......Page 5
part i EARLY RUS’ AND THE RISE OF MUSCOVY (c.900–1462)......Page 6
part ii THE EXPANSION, CONSOLIDATION AND CRISIS OF MUSCOVY (1462–1613)......Page 7
part iii RUSSIA UNDER THE FIRST ROMANOVS (1613–1689)......Page 8
Plates......Page 9
Maps (with page links)......Page 10
Figures (with page links)......Page 11
Genealogical tables......Page 12
Notes on contributors......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Note on dates and transliteration......Page 17
Chronology......Page 18
List of abbreviations......Page 23
The scope of the volume: what and where is pre-Petrine Russia?......Page 24
The organisation and structure of the volume......Page 26
The external environment and its impact......Page 28
Internal developments......Page 30
The present state of pre-Petrine Russia......Page 34
2 Russia’s geographical environment......Page 42
Peasant environments......Page 44
Location and space......Page 53
Resources for subsistence and development......Page 60
Environmental risks and uncertainties......Page 63
Conclusion......Page 66
EARLY Rus’ and the rise of Muscovy (c.900–1462)......Page 68
The Rus’ Primary Chronicle’s quest for the origins of Rus’......Page 70
The beginnings of political formations First signs of an organised power in the forest zone and of long-distance trading between the Muslim and Baltic worlds......Page 72
Signs of turbulence c.860–c. 871......Page 75
Princes of Kiev and the ‘Byzantine connection’: challenge and response......Page 79
Sviatoslav: the last migration......Page 83
972–c.978 Fragmentation......Page 85
Vladimir’s force, his legitimacy deficit and turning to the gods......Page 86
Vladimir-Basil, ‘new Constantine’ and patriarch......Page 89
simon franklin......Page 96
Dynastic politics......Page 97
From Vladimir Sviatoslavich to Vladimir Monomakh (princes of Kiev underlined)......Page 99
Power and governance......Page 104
External relations......Page 111
Religion, culture, ideology......Page 116
Introduction......Page 121
Vladimir Monomakh’s successors......Page 124
Iurii Dolgorukii......Page 127
The Mstislavichi......Page 130
Andrei Bogoliubskii......Page 133
Sviatoslav Vsevolodovich......Page 135
Riurik Rostislavich......Page 139
Vsevolod Big Nest and Vsevolod the Red......Page 141
Defeat at the River Kalka......Page 143
Mikhail Vsevolodovich......Page 144
Conclusion......Page 146
6 North-eastern Russia and the Golden Horde (1246–1359)......Page 150
Demographic and economic dislocation......Page 152
Dynastic reorganisation and the Golden Horde......Page 157
Territorial reorientation......Page 163
The Church......Page 171
North-eastern Russia in the mid-fourteenth century......Page 177
7 The emergence of Moscow (1359–1462)......Page 181
The Daniilovichi and the Golden Horde......Page 182
The Daniilovichi and the dynasty......Page 188
The Daniilovichi and the Church......Page 201
8 Medieval Novgorod......Page 211
The origins of Novgorod......Page 212
The development of boyar power......Page 215
The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries......Page 221
Conflict with Moscow......Page 225
Novgorod in the fifteenth century......Page 229
Epilogue......Page 232
The expansion, consolidation and crisis of Muscovy (1462–1613)......Page 234
9 The growth of Muscovy (1462–1533)......Page 236
Muscovy in 1462......Page 238
Ivan III and Vasilii III......Page 243
Domestic policies......Page 245
Foreign influences......Page 255
Foreign policies......Page 256
Muscovy in 1533......Page 261
Safeguarding the royal family......Page 263
Building the realm......Page 275
11 Fedor Ivanovich and Boris Godunov (1584–1605)......Page 287
The regency of Boris Godunov......Page 289
Tsar Boris......Page 302
Peasant farming and material culture......Page 309
Slavery and the beginnings of enserfment......Page 317
13 Towns and commerce......Page 321
The urban network......Page 323
Urban society and administration......Page 327
Urban and regional commerce......Page 332
Long-distance and international trade......Page 336
Conclusion......Page 339
The conquest in the north and north-east......Page 340
The conquest of Kazan’ and Astrakhan’......Page 342
A foothold in the North Caucasus......Page 347
The conquest of Siberia......Page 350
The structure of the indigenous societies......Page 353
The terms of encounter......Page 354
Methods of conquest......Page 357
15 The Orthodox Church......Page 361
Popular religiosity......Page 363
Heresy......Page 371
Iosifites and non-possessors......Page 374
Reform......Page 376
Church and state......Page 380
Time of Troubles......Page 381
Russkaia pravda......Page 383
The Pskov Judicial Charter......Page 388
The Novgorod Judicial Charter......Page 394
Immunities......Page 397
The Muscovite Sudebniki......Page 398
17 Political ideas and rituals......Page 410
Muscovy and the ideology of rulership......Page 411
Ritual and setting......Page 413
Contingent rituals Foreign diplomatic rituals......Page 418
Bride shows......Page 419
Coronation ritual......Page 420
New Year’s ritual......Page 424
The Last Judgement ritual......Page 425
Fiery Furnace ritual......Page 426
Epiphany ritual......Page 427
Palm Sunday ritual......Page 428
Typological characteristics......Page 430
18 The Time of Troubles (1603–1613)......Page 432
The First False Dmitrii......Page 433
The Bolotnikov revolt......Page 438
The Second False Dmitrii......Page 441
The national liberation campaign......Page 448
Conclusion......Page 453
Russia under the first Romanovs (1613–1689)......Page 456
19 The central government and its institutions......Page 458
The tsar in his court......Page 459
Who won? A brief overview of seventeenth-century high politics......Page 465
The early Romanovs......Page 467
The chancelleries......Page 476
Other central institutions: the ‘boyar council’ and ‘Assembly of the Land’......Page 481
Concluding remarks......Page 485
The spread of town governor administration......Page 487
Enhanced control through improved record-keeping......Page 489
Local government in reconstruction and reform......Page 492
Efforts at bureaucratic rationalisation......Page 494
The political economy of corruption......Page 503
21 Muscovy at war and peace......Page 509
Recovery and revanche, 1613–34......Page 510
The Crimean khanate and the Don cossack host......Page 515
The Thirteen YearsWar, 1654–67......Page 523
Conflict with the Ottomans and Crimean Tatars, 1667–89......Page 530
Muscovy’s emergence as a great power......Page 539
22 Non-Russian subjects......Page 543
The steppe......Page 544
Siberia......Page 550
The North Caucasus......Page 552
The Baltics and Ukraine......Page 554
The mid-Volga region......Page 556
Methods of conquest and colonisation......Page 558
Commerce and the merchantry......Page 562
The process of enserfment, 1613–49......Page 568
The Ulozhenie of 1649......Page 574
Judicial venues......Page 582
The practice of the law......Page 591
Codifications of the law......Page 595
The urban network......Page 602
Urban society and administration......Page 608
Urban commerce......Page 610
The symbolic and religious role of towns......Page 616
The physical form of towns......Page 619
Conclusion......Page 622
26 Popular revolts......Page 623
The sequence of revolts......Page 624
The social composition of the rebels......Page 631
‘Rebellions in the name of the tsar’......Page 635
The legacy of the past......Page 641
Patriarch Filaret......Page 643
The Church in the seventeenth century......Page 645
Pressure for reform......Page 649
Patriarch Nikon......Page 652
Resistance to Nikon’s reforms......Page 656
Old Belief and the official Church after 1666......Page 658
The official Church after 1667......Page 661
lindsey hughes Culture ‘in transition’......Page 663
Culture after the Time of Troubles......Page 664
Architecture and sculpture......Page 667
The Armoury: icons, portraits, applied art......Page 670
Theatre and music......Page 676
Literary and intellectual life: publishing and printing......Page 678
Conclusion: secularisation revisited......Page 681
Bibliography......Page 686
A......Page 745
B......Page 748
C......Page 750
D......Page 755
E......Page 757
F......Page 758
G......Page 760
I......Page 762
J......Page 765
K......Page 766
L......Page 768
M......Page 771
N......Page 776
O......Page 778
P......Page 780
Q,R......Page 784
S......Page 786
T......Page 791
U......Page 795
V......Page 796
Y......Page 799
Z......Page 800
The Plates......Page 801
