Russia's People of Empire

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Biographies highlight Russia's multicultural history

A fundamental dimension of the Russian historical experience has been the diversity of its people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes and economies. For six centuries this diversity was contained within the sprawling territories of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and it persists today in the entwined states and societies of the former USSR. Russia's People of Empire explores this enduring multicultural world through life stories of 31 individuals—famous and obscure, high born and low, men and women—that illuminate the cross-cultural exchanges at work from the late 1500s to post-Soviet Russia. Working on the scale of a single life, these microhistories shed new light on the multicultural character of the Russian Empire, which both shaped individuals' lives and in turn was shaped by them.

Acknowledgments
Chronology
Maps
Introduction by Stephen M. Norris and Willard Sunderland
1. Ermak, 1530s/40s-1585 Willard Sunderland
2. Simeon Bekbulatovich, ?-1616 Donald Ostrowski
3. Timofei Ankudinov, 1609-1653 Maureen Perrie
4. Gavril Romanov Nikitin, -1698" Erika Monahan
5. Boris Kurakin, 1676-1727 Ernest Zitser
6. Mikhail Lomonosov, 1711-1765 Michael Gordin
7. Catherine the Great, 1729-1796 Hilde Hoogenboom
8. Petr Bagration 1765-1812 Sean Pollock
9. Johannes Ambrosius Rosenstrauch, 1768-1835 Alexander Martin
10. Imam Shamil, 1797-1871 Rebecca Gould
11. Zalumma Agra, 1864 Charles King
12. Adam Mickiewicz, 1798-1855 Ted Weeks
13. Archbishop Innokentii, 1800-1857 Mara Kozelsky
14. Nikolai Gogol, 1809-1852 Edyta Bojanowska
15. Anton Rubenstein, 1829-1894 Richard Stites
16. Aleksandr Borodin, 1833-1887 Dave Schimmelpenninck
17. Kutlu-Muhammed Tevkelev and Family (1850-?) Charles Steinwedel
18. P.A. Badmaev, 1851-1919 David McDonald
19. Ekaterina Sabashnikova-Baranovskaia, 1859-? Barbara Alpern Engel
20. Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim, 1867-1951 Bradley Woodworth
21. Matilde Kshesinskaia, 1872-1971 Krista Sigler
22. Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953 Ron Suny
23. Anna Akhmatova, 1889-1966 Alexandra Harrington
24. Aleksandr Germano, 1893-1955 Brigid O'Keeffe
25. Lazar Kaganovich, 1893-1991 Hiroaki Kuromiya
26. Dziga Vertov, 1896-1954 John MacKay
27. Mukhtar Auezov, 1897-1961 Michael Rouland
28. Jahon Obidova, 1900-1967 Marianne Kamp
29. Olzhas Suleimenov, 1936- Marlene Laruelle
30. Boris Akunin (Grigorii Chkhartishvili), 1956 Stephen Norris
31. Vladislav Surkov, 1964- Karen Dawisha
Notes
List of Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Former Soviet Union
• Modern
• HISTORY
• Histoire
• URSS
• Biography
• Modern history
• General officer
• Eastern Europe
• Russian
• Russia
• Eastern
• General
• Eurasia
• Obermodern-Zutzendorf
• Russie
• Europe

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• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 11 juillet 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253001849
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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RUSSIA S
People of Empire
RUSSIA S
People of Empire

LIFE STORIES FROM EURASIA, 1500 TO THE PRESENT
EDITED BY
S TEPHEN M. N ORRIS AND W ILLARD S UNDERLAND
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Russia s people of empire : life stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the present / edited by Stephen M. Norris and Willard Sunderland.
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ISBN 978-0-253-00176-4 (cloth : alkaline paper) - ISBN 978-0-253-00183-2 (paperback : alkaline paper) - ISBN 978-0-253-00184-9 (ebook) (print) 1. Russia-Biography. 2. Soviet Union-Biography. 3. Russia (Federation)- Biography. 4. Cultural pluralism-Russia. 5. Cultural pluralism-Soviet Union. 6. Cultural pluralism-Russia (Federation) I. Norris, Stephen M. II. Sunderland, Willard, 1965-
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In memory of Richard Stites (1931-2010), Beloved teacher, scholar, and friend
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction: Russia s People of Empire
STEPHEN M. NORRIS AND WILLARD SUNDERLAND
1. Ermak Timofeevich (1530s/40s-1585) WILLARD SUNDERLAND
2. Simeon Bekbulatovich (?-1616) DONALD OSTROWSKI
3. Timofei Ankudinov (1617?-1653) MAUREEN PERRIE
4. Gavril Romanovich Nikitin (?-1698) ERIKA MONAHAN
5. Boris Ivanovich Korybut-Kurakin (1676-1727) ERNEST A. ZITSER
6. Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765) MICHAEL D. GORDIN
7. Catherine the Great (1729-1796) HILDE HOOGENBOOM
8. Petr Ivanovich Bagration (1765-1812) SEAN POLLOCK
9. Johannes Ambrosius Rosenstrauch (1768-1835)
ALEXANDER M. MARTIN
10. Imam Shamil (1797-1871) REBECCA GOULD
11. Zalumma Agra, the Star of the East (fl. 1860s) CHARLES KING
12. Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) THEODORE R. WEEKS
13. Archbishop Innokentii (Borisov, 1800-1857) MARA KOZELSKY
14. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852) EDYTA BOJANOWSKA
15. Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894) RICHARD STITES
16. Aleksandr Borodin (1833-1887)
DAVID SCHIMMELPENNINCK VAN DER OYE
17. Kutlu-Mukhammad Batyr-Gireevich Tevkelev (1850-?) and Family CHARLES STEINWEDEL
18. Petr Badmaev (1851-1920) DAVID MCDONALD
19. Ekaterina Sabashnikova-Baranovskaia (1859-?)
BARBARA ALPERN ENGEL
20. Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867-1951)
BRADLEY D. WOODWORTH
21. Mathilde Kshesinskaia (1872-1971) KRISTA SIGLER
22. Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) RONALD GRIGOR SUNY
23. Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) ALEXANDRA HARRINGTON
24. Aleksandr Germano (1893-1955) BRIGID O KEEFFE
25. Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich (1893-1991) HIROAKI KUROMIYA
26. Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) JOHN MACKAY
27. Mukhtar Auezov (1897-1961) MICHAEL ROULAND
28. Jahon Obidova (1900-1967) MARIANNE KAMP
29. Olzhas Suleimenov (1936-) MARL NE LARUELLE
30. Boris Akunin (Grigorii Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, 1956-)
STEPHEN M. NORRIS
31. Vladislav Surkov (1964-) KAREN DAWISHA

Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
We could not have taken on an essay collection of this scope without the support of numerous friends and colleagues. Our first thanks go to our contributors for their essays and their patience as our project came into shape and progressed over the last several years. In 2009, we presented a version of our introduction at the annual meeting of the Midwest Russian History Workshop at the University of Notre Dame. We are grateful to all the faculty and graduate students at the session that day for their helpful suggestions and encouragement, with special thanks to Valerie Kivelson for her insightful comments on the text and Alexander Martin, our gracious host for the event. Janet Rabinowitch, our editor at Indiana University Press, has been remarkable. We thank her for all the enthusiasm, confidence, and editorial insight she has invested in our work since the moment we first spoke with her about the project. Jane Burbank and Robert Crews offered us rich and insightful critiques as readers for the Press-we are very grateful to them for this. Peter Froehlich of Indiana University Press helped us with numerous production questions. In addition, we would like to thank Angela Burton, our managing editor; Dawn Ollila for her talented copyediting of the manuscript; and Bill Nelson for his excellent maps.
Finally, we wish to offer the most special of thanks to one of our contributors who is no longer with us-Richard Stites. Richard passed away before he could see his chapter appear in this book, but we still feel his presence. Over a long and accomplished career of teaching and writing about Russian history, he established himself as a remarkable presence in our field, touching many of us with his love for and deep knowledge of the Russian past-and even more with his generous nature as an intellectual, mentor, and friend. It is telling that neither of us formally studied with Richard, but both of us feel charmed to have known him and to have benefited from his rare blend of erudition and kindness. We so wish he could be here to give us his insightful reflections on all the complex and engaging lives captured in these pages. With great respect and affection, we dedicate this volume to him.
Chronology of the Russian Empire

Italics indicate lives explored in this volume
1533
Ivan IV, just 3 years old, becomes Grand Prince of Moscow 1530s/40s-1585: Life of Ermak
1547
Ivan IV is the first Russian ruler to be crowned tsar, the Russian term for Caesar
1552
Conquest of Kazan and annexation of the Kazan Khanate
1556
Annexation of the Khanate of Astrakhan
1558-1583
Livonian War-Ivan IV s armies initially conquer parts of Livonia and Lithuania, but are defeated by Poland-Lithuania and Sweden
1570
Conquest of Novgorod
?-1616
Life of Simeon Bekbulatovich
1579-1582
Ermak s campaign against the Khanate of Siberia
1584
Death of Ivan IV; his son, F dor, becomes tsar
1586-1587
Fortress towns of Ufa, Tobolsk, and Tiumen founded
1598
Death of F dor; Boris Godunov elected tsar
1605
Death of Boris Godunov; Russia experiences period of political pretenders
1605-1613
Civil war, later known as the Time of Troubles [ smutnoe vremia ]
1610
Poles invade Russia
1612
Russian armies force the Poles out of Moscow
1613
Mikhail Romanov elected tsar
1617-1653
Life of Timofei Ankudinov
1619-1648
Expansion in Siberia beyond the Yenisei and Lena Rivers to the Pacific Ocean; Iakutsk founded in 1632; Okhotsk in 1648
1645
Mikhail Romanov dies; his son, Aleksei, becomes tsar
1648-1649
Uprising of Cossacks led by Bohdan Khmelnitsky
1649
Law Code ( Ulozhenie ) adopted
1654
Pereiaslavl Agreement between Dnepr Cossacks and Muscovite Tsar establishes Russian control over Ukrainian lands
1654-1667
War with Poland for control over Ukraine; conquest of Smolensk; Russia gains eastern Ukraine, Kyiv
1670-1671
Uprising in the Volga region led by Stepan Razin
1676
Death of Aleksei; his son, F dor, becomes tsar
?-1698
Life of Gavril Nikitin
1676-1727
Life of Boris Korybut-Kurakin
1682
F dor dies; his sons, Ivan and Peter, become co-tsars
1689
Peter becomes sole tsar
1689
Treaty of Nerchinsk establishes border between Russia and China
1695-1696
Azov campaigns; second one establishes control over the city
1700-1721
Great Northern War between Russia and Sweden
1703
St. Petersburg founded
1710
Conquest of Estonia and Livonia
1711-1765
Life of Mikhail Lomonosov
1722-1723
Persian campaign
1725
Peter dies; his second wife, Catherine, becomes tsarina
1727
Catherine dies; Peter s grandson, Peter II, becomes tsar
1729-1796
Life of Catherine II, the Great
1730
Peter II dies; Anna, daughter of Peter I s half-brother, Ivan, becomes tsarina
1731-1742
Kazakh khans swear loyalty oaths to Russia
1734-1740
Bashkir revolts, conquest of the Southern Urals
1740
Anna dies; her grand-nephew, the infant Ivan VI, becomes tsar
1741
Bering s expedition reaches the coast of Alaska
1741
Peter I s daughter, Elizabeth, becomes tsarina in palace coup
1757
Russia becomes involved in the Seven Years War
1761
Death of Elizabeth; Peter I s grandson, Peter III, becomes tsar
1762
Peter III s wife, Catherine, deposes him as tsar in palace coup
1765
Sloboda Ukraine becomes Russi