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Russia in the Reign of Aleksei Mikhailovich / Grigorii Karpovich Kotoshikhin; Marshall Poe.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter Open Poland, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9788376560656
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 947.05 23
LOC classification:
  • DK133 .K68 2014eb
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Dedication -- About Benjamin Uroff by Ralph T. Fisher Jr. -- From Marshall Poe -- Kotoshikhin's World by Marshall Poe -- Russia in the Reign of Aleksei Mikhailovich -- Appendix 1: Weights, Measures, and Currency by Marshall Poe -- Appendix 2: Glossary of Russian Terms by Marshall Poe -- Index
Summary: The book presents the first English edition of "On Russia in the Reign of Aleksei Mikhailovich" by Grigorii Kotoshikhin. This is the only native source describing the character of the seventeenth-century Russian state and society. It offers a unique and detailed picture of the nature of Russian "autocracy", the life at the tsar's court, social mores of the nobles and commoners of those times, military affairs, diplomatic relations, etc. The book is a veritable ethnographic encyclopedia of early Russian life.With broad commentaries and supporting materials provided by the translator, Benjamin Uroff, and the editor, Marshall Poe, it provides an invaluable source for understanding XVII-century Muscovite Russia.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Dedication -- About Benjamin Uroff by Ralph T. Fisher Jr. -- From Marshall Poe -- Kotoshikhin's World by Marshall Poe -- Russia in the Reign of Aleksei Mikhailovich -- Appendix 1: Weights, Measures, and Currency by Marshall Poe -- Appendix 2: Glossary of Russian Terms by Marshall Poe -- Index

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The book presents the first English edition of "On Russia in the Reign of Aleksei Mikhailovich" by Grigorii Kotoshikhin. This is the only native source describing the character of the seventeenth-century Russian state and society. It offers a unique and detailed picture of the nature of Russian "autocracy", the life at the tsar's court, social mores of the nobles and commoners of those times, military affairs, diplomatic relations, etc. The book is a veritable ethnographic encyclopedia of early Russian life.With broad commentaries and supporting materials provided by the translator, Benjamin Uroff, and the editor, Marshall Poe, it provides an invaluable source for understanding XVII-century Muscovite Russia.

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