Peter the Great; A Biography

by Lindsey Hughes

• ISBN13: 9780300103007
• ISBN10: 030010300X
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-03-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

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 wed
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)
Paintings 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