| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xv, 537 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Part I. Kievan Rus -- 1. The distribution of medieval Slavs -- 2. The coming of the Varangians -- 3. Byzantine-Kievan relations -- 4. Porphyrogenitus' description of the voyage down the Dnieper River -- 5. Olga's vengeance -- 6. Sviatoslav's conquests -- 7. The acceptance of Christianity -- 8. Ruskaia pravda: the short version -- 9. The church statue of Kiev -- 10. Metropolitan Hilarion's eulogy of Prince Vladimir and Prince Iaroslav -- 11. The struggle for succession -- 12. The struggle with the nomads -- 13. The testament of Vladimir Monomakh -- 14. The assassination of Prince Bogoliubskii and a popular revolt in Vladimir -- 15. The tale of the host of Igor -- 16. Daniel's plea for forgiveness -- 17. A discourse concerning the ruin of Rus Land -- 18. A biography of Prince Alexander Nevskii -- 19. Galicia-Volyn in the thirteenth century -- 20. A treaty between Novgorod and the Hanseatic League, 1270 -- 21. Life in medieval Novgorod -- Part II. Mongol Yoke -- 22. Mongol conquest of northern Rus in 1237-1238 -- 23. Mongol capture of Kiev in 1240 -- 24. John of Pian de Carpine's journey to Mongolia in 1246 -- 25. The court of Batu Khan in 1253 -- 26. Prince Daniel of Galicia's relations with the Mongols -- 27. Mongol rule and the Orthodox Church -- 28. The anti-Mongol uprising in Tver in 1327 -- 29. Moscow's first successful challenge of the Mongols, 1380 -- 30. A letter from a Tatar leader, Edigei, to Moscow's Grand Prince Vasilii I, 1409 -- 31. Ending of the Mongol Yoke in 1480 -- Part III. Muscovy -- 32. The reign of Ivan Kalita of Moscow -- 33. The last will of Ivan Kalita, or "Money bag," ca. 1339 -- 34. A brief biography of Prince Dmitrii Donskoi -- 35. Zadonshchina -- 36. A journey from Moscow to Constantinople in 1389 -- 37. Nestor-Iskander's 'Tale' of the capture of Constantinople, 1453 -- 38. Restrictions of peasant movement in the 1460s -- 39. Ivan III's conquest of Novgorod in 1471 -- 40. Contarini's impression of Muscovy in 1476 -- 41. The Sudebnik (Code of law) of Ivan III, 1497 -- 42. Filofei's concept of the "third Rome" -- 43. Herberstein's observations of Muscovy -- 44. Ivan the Terrible's own account of his early life -- 45. Domostroi -- 46. Moscow and the court of Ivan the Terrible in 1553 -- 47. First privileges granted by Ivan the Terrible to English merchants, 1555 -- 48. A letter from King Sigismund of Poland to Elizabeth I, 1559 -- 49. A letter from Ivan the Terrible to Elizabeth I, 1570 -- 50. Ivan the Terrible's punishment of Novgorod in 1570 -- 51. Muscovy at the end of the sixteenth century -- 52. Possevino's observations of Muscovy and its people -- 53. Russian conquest and exploitation of Siberia -- 54. Bussow's account of the famine in Moscow, 1601-1604 -- 55. A letter from the False Dmitrii to Boris Godunov, 1604 -- 56. Massa's account of events surrounding the death of the False Dmitrii in 1606 -- 57. Shuiskii's decree against runaway peasants, March 9, 1607 -- 58. Conditions for Wladyslaw's ascension to the throne of Muscovy, 1610 -- 59. A French view of seventeenth century Muscovy -- 60. Olearius' commentaries on Muscovy in the 1630s and 1640s -- 61. The code of law of 1649 -- 62. The popular discontent in seventeenth century Russia -- 63. Provisions of Russian protectorate over Ukraine in 1654 -- 64. Kotoshikhin's description of the private lives of the boyars and of other ranks of Muscovite society -- 65. A decree on runaway peasants, 1661 -- 66. Krizhanich's observations on Russia's potential strengths and weaknesses -- 67. An English view of the Muscovite tsar and his society -- 68. Avvakum's account of his sufferings -- 69. A biography of boyarina Morosova -- 70. A story of a rich merchant Sutulov and his clever wife Tatiana. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [528]-537). |
| Subject |
Russia -- History -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Dmytryshyn, Basil, 1925-
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| ISBN |
0030334225 |
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