Russia's People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the PresentStephen M. Norris, Willard Sunderland 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. |
Contents
Russias People of Empire | 1 |
1 Ermak Timofeevich 1530s40s1585 | 17 |
2 Simeon Bekbulatovich ?1616 | 27 |
3 Timofei Ankudinov 1617?1653 | 37 |
4 Gavril Romanovich Nikitin ?1698 | 47 |
5 Boris Ivanovich KorybutKurakin 16761727 | 59 |
6 Mikhail Lomonosov 17111765 | 71 |
7 Catherine the Great 17291796 | 81 |
18 Petr Badmaev 18511920 | 199 |
19 Ekaterina SabashnikovaBaranovskaia 1859? | 211 |
20 Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim 18671951 | 221 |
21 Mathilde Kshesinskaia 18721971 | 233 |
22 Joseph Stalin 18781953 | 243 |
23 Anna Akhmatova 18891966 | 255 |
24 Aleksandr Germano 18931955 | 265 |
25 Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich 18931991 | 275 |
8 Petr Ivanovich Bagration 17651812 | 93 |
9 Johannes Ambrosius Rosenstrauch 17681835 | 105 |
10 Imam Shamil 17971871 | 117 |
11 Zalumma Agra the Star of the East fl 1860s | 129 |
12 Adam Mickiewicz 17981855 | 139 |
13 Archbishop Innokentii Borisov 18001857 | 149 |
14 Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 18091852 | 159 |
15 Anton Rubinstein 18291894 | 169 |
16 Aleksandr Borodin 18331887 | 179 |
17 KutluMukhammad BatyrGireevich Tevkelev 1850?and Family | 189 |