ISBN:
9780765627285
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (352 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Portraits of Old Russia : Imagined Lives of Ordinary People, 1300-1745
DDC:
306.0947
Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Dedication""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Chronology of Old Russia from 1304 to 1725""; ""Map of Muscovy""; ""Introduction""; ""I. Members of Ruling Families""; ""1. Anna Koltovskaia: A Russian Tsaritsa""; ""2. Memoir of a Tatar Prince: Ismail ibn Ahmed""; ""3. Gleb Vasilievich: A Prince in Fourteenth-Century Yaroslavl""; ""II. Government Servitors""; ""4. A Dialogue Between Two Seventeenth-Century Boyars""; ""5. The Power of Knowledge: Vita of the Secretary Andrei Putilov""; ""6. Larka the Clerk""; ""III. Military Personnel""
Description / Table of Contents:
""7. "My Brilliant Career": Autobiography of a Career Army Officer""""8. The Life of a Foreign Mercenary Officer""; ""9. Vasilii Zotov: A Military Colonist on the Southern Frontier""; ""IV. Church Prelates""; ""10. A Seventeenth-Century Prelate: Metropolitan Pavel of Sarai and the Don""; ""11. Vasilii Kalika, Archbishop of Novgorod (r. 1330-52)""; ""V. Monks""; ""12. Holy Images for the Grand Prince""; ""13. Three Scholars at the Kirillo-Belozersk Monastery: A Teacher, a Student, and a Librarian""; ""14. Greeks in Seventeenth-Century Russia""
Description / Table of Contents:
""15. Akakii Balandin of Novgorod-Volotovo and Solovki Monasteries (1526-95)""""VI. Provincial Landowners, Artisans, and Townspeople""; ""16. Provincial Landowners as Litigants""; ""17. Artisans: The Prokofiev Family""; ""18. A Poor Townswoman Accused of Witchcraft""; ""VII. Siberian Explorer and Trader""; ""19. S.U. Remezov, Cossack Adventurer, and the Opening of Siberia""; ""20. A Siberian Trader: Urasko Kaibulin""; ""VIII. Peasants, Slaves, Serfs, and Holy Fools""; ""21. The Parfiev Family: Northern Free Peasants""; ""22. Muscovite Lives: A Slave and a Serf""
Description / Table of Contents:
""23. Dunia, a Fool for Christ""""Glossary""; ""On the Use and History of Personal Names in Muscovy""; ""Transcription and Pronunciation Guide for Russian Names""; ""About the Editors and the Contributors""; ""Index""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
