"A fresh and lively approach to understanding how the various Russian empires have worked." — Slavic Review 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. "[S]tudents of Russian empire would be well served with this work, given its snapshots of diverse imperial milieus and their attendant multicultural dialogues at the personal level." — Slavic and East European Journal "This compilation... gives readers a more in-depth, personal understanding of how the inescapable existence of diversity in Russia and the Soviet Union related to everyday life... Highly recommended." — Choice

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Information

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Year

2012

ISBN

9780253001849

Topic

History

Subtopic

Russian History

Index

History

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction: Russia’s People of Empire
1. Ermak Timofeevich (1530s/40s–1585)
2. Simeon Bekbulatovich (?–1616)
3. Timofei Ankudinov (1617?–1653)
4. Gavril Romanovich Nikitin (?–1698)
5. Boris Ivanovich Korybut-Kurakin (1676–1727)
6. Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765)
7. Catherine the Great (1729–1796)
8. Petr Ivanovich Bagration (1765–1812)
9. Johannes Ambrosius Rosenstrauch (1768–1835)
10. Imam Shamil (1797–1871)
11. Zalumma Agra, the “Star of the East” (fl. 1860s)
12. Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855)
13. Archbishop Innokentii (Borisov, 1800–1857)
14. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809–1852)
15. Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894)
16. Aleksandr Borodin (1833–1887)
17. Kutlu-Mukhammad Batyr–Gireevich Tevkelev (1850–?) and Family
18. Petr Badmaev (1851–1920)
19. Ekaterina Sabashnikova-Baranovskaia (1859–?)
20. Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867–1951)
21. Mathilde Kshesinskaia (1872–1971)
22. Joseph Stalin (1878–1953)
23. Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966)
24. Aleksandr Germano (1893–1955)
25. Lazar' Moiseevich Kaganovich (1893–1991)
26. Dziga Vertov (1896–1954)
27. Mukhtar Auezov (1897–1961)
28. Jahon Obidova (1900–1967)
29. Olzhas Suleimenov (1936–)
30. Boris Akunin (Grigorii Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, 1956–)
31. Vladislav Surkov (1964–)
Contributors
Index