The City and the Tsar Peter the Great and the move to the west 1648 - 1762
Gespeichert in:
| 1. Verfasser: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
| Veröffentlicht: |
Garden City, N. Y.
Doubleday
1951
|
| Ausgabe: | [1st ed.] |
| Schlagworte: | |
| Tags: |
Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
|
Tag hinzufügen | Beschreibung: | Contents: I. The two gates of Muscovy. Great master ; Dezhnev the hunter ; The freebooters of Yakutsk ; The tsar's plan and the bureau's performance ; Nikifor Chernigovsky's republic ; The young Natalia ; The first favorites ; Light from the West ; Alexis asks a blessing -- II. The young Westerners. Weakness of the throne ; Calling in of the Streltsi ; The ghosts of the Tartar Khans ; Journal of Nicholas Spathary ; What Father Gerbillon witnessed ; Opening of the Baraba Steppe ; Sophia's seat behind the two thrones ; The road to the Krim ; Suburb of the foreigners ; The fort and the boat ; Francois Lefort ; The storm on the frozen sea ; The ships go down to Azov ; Atlasov's sixty Cossacks -- III. The tour of Europe and the invasion. The great embassy ; The hired minds ; Failure of the mission ; Patrick Gordon at the Istra ; Testimony of Johann Korb ; The rise of Alexashka ; The compelling forces ; The road to Narva ; The church bells and the army cannon ; How the foundations of Petersburg were laid ; Poltava ; Revolt of the southern frontier ; Mazeppa and Charles ; Penetration of the Ukraine and the Baltic ; Invasion of the wilderness ; The capitulation on the Pruth -- IV. Rise of the makers of the reign. Alexis in Moscow ; Testimony of the tongues ; The case of Alexis in Vienna ; Peter's other self ; The Lutheran church and the fleet ; Judgment of a Dolgoruky ; Purge of Moscow and execution of Alexis ; The venture to Paris ; Pastor Gluck's academy ; The ancient stones and the strange bones ; The case of Mary Hamilton ; Peace and the great flood ; The silent migration ; The purge of the favorites V. The turning to the East. Little Demidov and the far mountains ; Testimony of Stralenberg ; What John Bell of Antermony saw ; Failure in the Caucasus ; The hidden conflict ; The birth of a new nation ; The unknown land -- VI. Reaction of the land against the city. Impotency of the family ; Return to Moscow ; Peter's changes, the legend and the reality ; End of the dynasty ; Age of Biron ; End of the Germans ; The bronze horseman and the new land -- Afterword : The different judgments of Peter |
|---|---|
| Beschreibung: | 1 Porträt, X, 368 Seite 22 cm |