Peter the Great

A narrative of political struggles at the Russian court during Peter the Great's reign.

Autorentext
Paul Bushkovitch has been Professor of History at Yale University since 1992, having taught there since 1975. His books include The Merchants of Moscow, 1580 1650 (Cambridge, 1980) and Religion and Society in Russia: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1992).

Klappentext
A narrative of political struggles at the Russian court during Peter the Great's reign.

Zusammenfassung
A narrative of the fifty years of political struggles at the Russian court, 16711725. This book shows how Peter the Great was not the all-powerful tsar working alone to reform Russia, but that he colluded with powerful and contentious aristocrats in order to achieve his goals.

Inhalt
Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Prologue: court politics and reform; 1. Tsar and boyars: structures and values; 2. The ascendancy of Artamon Matveev, 1671 3. The reign of Tsar Fyodor, 1676; 4. The regency of Sofia, 1682 5. Peter in power, 1689; 6. Peter and the favourites: Golovin and Menshikov, 169906; 7. Poltava and the new gubernias, 1707 8. The Senate and the eclipse of Menshikov, 1709; 9. The affair of the tsarevich, 1715; 10. The end of Aleksei Petrovich, 1718; Epilogue and conclusion, 1718; Bibliography; Index.

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