Peter the Great : A Biography

by Lindsey Hughes

• ISBN13: 9780300094268
• ISBN10: 0300094264
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-09-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Author Biography

Lindsey Hughes is professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	x
Preface	xii
Note on Transliteration, Dates and Monetary Units	xvi
Romanov Family Tree	xvii
Map	xviii
Growing Up 1672--89	1	(26)
A tsar is born
Russia in 1672
Childhood
The strel'tsy revolt of 1682
Sophia and the `Khovanshchina'
A portrait of Ivan and Peter
The regency
War and naval games Preobrazhenskoe
Marriage the Crimean campaigns. Sophia and Golitsyn overthrown
Prelude to Greatness 1689--97	27	(13)
The Naryshkins
Foreign friends
Prince-Pope and Prince-Caesar
The death of Natalia Naryshkina
The Kozhukhovo manoeuvres
Menshikov
The Azov campaigns
The Grand Embassy 1697--99	40	(18)
Peter Mikhailov
The insult at Riga. Prussia
The little house at Zaandam
The Dutch Republic
England
Kneller
Impressions of foggy Albion
The strel'tsy revolt of 1698
Wielding the razor
Punishing the strel'tsy
War with Sweden 1700--8	58	(24)
Ring out the old, ring in the new
Peter's army
Narva 1700
Of marriages and mathematics
The founding of St Petersburg
Martha Skavronska
Makarov and the Cabinet
War in poland and the Baltic. The Astrakhan revolt
Waiting for Charles
Bulavin
Charles turns south. Mazepa
From Poltava to Pruth 1709--11	82	(19)
Poltava
Turk of the North
Paradise regained. The growth of St Petersburg
Two weddings
War with Turkey
The Senate
`The true and lawful sovereign lady'
Battle on the Pruth
Alexis and Charlotte
Peter in Europe 1712--17	101	(21)
Peter and Catherine weds
German affairs
Finland
Victory at Hango
The Prince-Pope's wedding
The birth of two Peters
A new grand tour of Europe
Paris
Return to St Petersburg
The Colleges
Father and Sons 1718--20	122	(24)
Peter and Alexis
Witch hunt
Freaks and monsters
Alexis's trial
The death of Alexis
Assemblies and The Honourable Mirror of Youth
The chief of police
The death of Peter Petrovich
A passion for the fleet
Statutes and regulations
Pastimes
The Year of Nystad 1721	146	(19)
Yuletide visits
The Holy Synod
Celebrations and executions
Anna and Karl
Summer in St Petersburg
Nikitin's portrait
The peace of Nystad
The Russian Versailles
Ranks and Regulations 1722--23	165	(21)
The Table of Ranks
The succession to the throne
More legislation
The procurator-general
Procurators, inquisitors and police chiefs
The Persian campaign
Carnivals and a funeral
The grandfather of the navy
The Persian war ends
Death of Tsaritsa Praskovia
Pulling uphill. Bribery, corruption and red tape
A Coronation and a Funeral 1724--25	186	(22)
A year of peace
The Academy of Sciences
Taking the waters
Catherine's coronation
Family, sheep and other matters
Reflections
The William Mons affair
Death
`Leave all to...'
Deathbed portraits
Castrum doloris
Burial
Legacy	208	(18)
The emperor is dead. Long live the empress
The balance sheet of domestic reform
World power
Window on the West
Reformer or revolutionary? Views of Peter from the 1720s to the 1980s
Commemorating Peter: 1725--2002	226	(25)
Printing and statues: 1725--1917
Peter's places
Peter's
Possessions
Petrine anniversaries
Soviet Peter
Post-Soviet, post-modern Peter
Abbreviations	251	(3)
Notes	254	(11)
Select Bibliography	265	(10)
Index	275