Portraits of Old Russia

Imagined Lives of Ordinary People, 1300-1745

Donald Ostrowski, Marshall T. Poe

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317462378
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: History

This book introduces readers to a little-known place and time in world history – early modern Russia, from its beginnings as Muscovy, in the fourteenth century, through the reign of Peter I (1689-1725) – by portraying the lives of representative individuals from the major levels of the society of that era. The portraits, written by professional historians, are imaginative reconstructions or composites of individual lives, rather than biographies. The portraits are arranged into socio-political categories, and include members of ruling families, government servitors, clerks, military personnel, church prelates, monks, provincial landowners, townspeople and artisans, Siberian explorers and traders, free peasants, serfs, slaves and holy fools. Using these portraits, the book brings old Russian society to life in an interesting way.

Index

Key: This is an index of personal names, placenames, institutions, and titles. All individuals who are of the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries have their names listed alphabetically according to their first name rather than family name. Listing them this way represents how they were known at the time and how present-day Russian indexes of, say, chronicles are done. Names of fictional characters are given in bold.

Abazbanei Kulmametev, 228, 288

Abdullatif, 16, 17

Aberdeen, University, xxvi

Aberdeenshire, 82

Ablai-taisha, 217

Abraham, 134

Abul-Gazi, 227

Adam, 30, 119

Advent, 194

Aegean Sea, 156

Afanasii Demianov, 44

Afanasii Nagoi, 52

Afanasii Nikitin Nelidov, colonel, 74, 285

Afanasii Prokofiev, 188–197

Afonasii, 9

Agafia Borisovna Lykova, 9

Agafia Parfenovna, 100

Aiuka, Kalmyk khan, 214

Akakii, elder of Solovki Monastery, 165

Akakii Balandin, xxvi, xvii, 165–176

Alafi Mountain, 215

Alda, Alan, xxiv

Aleksandr, Bishop of Kolomna, 111

Aleksandr, Bishop of Viatka, 109

Aleksandr (formerly Aleksei) Oshevenskii, saint, 139, 144–148

Aleksandr Daniilovich Menshikov, field marshal, 79

Aleksandr Mikhailovich, prince of Pskov, 120

Aleksandr Mikhailovich,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Chronology of Old Russia from 1304 to 1725
• Map of Muscovy
• Introduction
• I. Members of Ruling Families
• II. Government Servitors
• III. Military Personnel
• IV. Church Prelates
• V. Monks
• VI. Provincial Landowners, Artisans, and Townspeople
• VII. Siberian Explorer and Trader
• VIII. Peasants, Slaves, Serfs, and Holy Fools
• Glossary
• On the Use and History of Personal Names in Muscovy
• Transcription and Pronunciation Guide for Russian Names
• About the Editors and the Contributors
• Index