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The historians' history of the world: Russia and Poland

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The "Historians' History of the World: Russia and Poland" is a meticulously curated volume that reflects the complex tapestry of historical narratives surrounding these two nations. This anthology draws from a wealth of sources, offering a rigorous academic approach while maintaining an engaging literary style. With contributions from various historians, the work contextualizes pivotal events, political shifts, and cultural transformations across centuries, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of Russia and Poland's intertwined destinies. The narrative style is characterized by both scholarly rigor and evocative storytelling, making it accessible yet authoritative. Emerging from a progressive movement in historiography, the various authors featured in this compendium were influenced by the desire to illuminate lesser-known aspects of history while offering new interpretations of well-known events. The collective expertise spans multiple disciplines, enriching the text with diverse perspectives and insights. Scholars such as these dedicate their work to bridging gaps in historical knowledge, inspired by the challenges faced by their own societies and a shared commitment to fostering understanding through history. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and general readers alike, providing an exhaustive overview of the tumultuous past of Russia and Poland. It invites exploration into their unique cultural legacies, while encouraging critical examination of the social and political forces that continue to shape these countries today. I highly recommend this scholarly work for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of Eastern European history.

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Publish dateMar 2, 2025

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1Introduction

121RENEWED HOSTILITIES WITH SWEDEN (1719-1721 A.D.)

2THE CONSPIRACY OF HENTZI; THE INSURRECTION AT FRIBOURG

122PETER AS ADMINISTRATOR

3DISORDERS AT GENEVA (1707-1782 A.D.)

123CATHERINE I (1725-1727 A.D.)

4TUMULTS IN NEUCHÂTEL

124PETER II (1727-1730 A.D.)

5ARISTOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY

125ANNA IVANOVNA (1730-1740 A.D.)

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6FEDERAL RELATIONS OF THE SWISS STATES

126THE NOMINAL REIGN OF IVAN VI (1740-1741 A.D.)

7CHANGES OF CONSTITUTIONS AND ADMINISTRATIONS

127ELIZABETH PETROVNA (1741-1762 A.D.)

8THE EVACUATION OF SWITZERLAND; THE NOMINATION OF DEPUTIES (1802-1803 A.D.)

128PETER III (1762 A.D.)

9THE ACT OF MEDIATION (1813 A.D.); CABALS FOLLOW NAPOLEON’S FALL

129CATHERINE’S OWN VIEWS ON RUSSIA

10SWITZERLAND DEVELOPS ALONG NEW LINES

130THE POLISH SUCCESSION; THE POLICY OF THE NATIONS

11REACTION AND REFORM; EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION OF JULY

131POLAND IS DISMEMBERED

12SIEBENER KONKORDAT; DISPUTES OVER ASYLUM AND RELIGION

132THE MIGRATION OF THE KALMUCKS

13THE SONDERBUND WAR (1847 A.D.)

133INSURRECTIONS AND PRETENDERS

14Chapter I. Switzerland to the Founding of the Confederation (earliest times to 1291 A.D.)

134FAVOURITISM UNDER CATHERINE II

15Chapter II. The Rise of The Swiss Confederation (1288-1402 A.D.)

135GENERAL SUVAROV

16Chapter III. The Confederation at the Height of its Power (1402-1516 A.D.)

136THE FAVOURITES LANSKOI AND IERMOLOV

17Chapter IV. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

137JOSEPH II VISITS CATHERINE; A SPECTACULAR TOUR

18Chapter V. The Eighteenth Century

138OUTBREAK OF THE AUSTRO-RUSSIAN WAR WITH TURKEY

19Chapter VI. Switzerland Since 1798

139THE SWEDISH WAR (1788-1790 A.D.)

20A GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SWISS HISTORY BASED ON THE WORKS QUOTED, CITED, OR CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THE PRESENT WORK; WITH CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

140PROGRESS OF THE AUSTRO-RUSSIAN WAR WITH TURKEY

21Before the Roman Conquest

141THE DEATH OF POTEMKIN (1792 A.D.); SÉGUR’S CHARACTERISATION

22Under Roman Dominion

142THE QUESTION OF THE IMPERIAL SUCCESSION

23From the German Invasions through the Carlovingians

143EARLY MEASURES OF THE REIGN OF PAUL I

24Time of Burgundian and Alamannian Rulers

144THE CAMPAIGNS OF KORSAKOV AND SUVAROV (1798-1799)

25From the Union of Switzerland under the German Emperors to the Founding of the Swiss Confederation

145PAUL RECONCILED WITH FRANCE (1800 A.D.)

26THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY

146THE ARMED NEUTRALITY (1800 A.D.)

27THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

147ASSASSINATION OF PAUL (1801 A.D.)

28THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

148THE ACCESSION OF ALEXANDER I (1801 A.D.); HIS EARLY REFORMS

29THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

149THE INCORPORATION OF GEORGIA

30THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

150RUSSIA JOINS THE THIRD COALITION

31THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

151THE CAMPAIGN OF AUSTERLITZ (1805 A.D.)

32THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

152THE CAMPAIGN OF EYLAU AND FRIEDLAND (1806-1807 A.D.)

33INTRODUCTION THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA

153RUSSIA DECLARES WAR AGAINST ENGLAND (1807 A.D.)

34EXTENT, CONFIGURATION, AND CLIMATE

154THE CONQUEST OF FINLAND (1807 A.D.)

35THE SIMILARITY OF EUROPEAN AND ASIATIC RUSSIA

155WAR WITH PERSIA AND WITH TURKEY

36THE DUALISM OF NORTH AND SOUTH

156CONGRESS OF ERFURT (1808 A.D.)

37THE SOIL OF THE BLACK LANDS AND THE STEPPES

157RENEWED WAR WITH TURKEY (1810 A.D.)

38DIVERSITY OF RACES

158WAR WITH NAPOLEON

39ETHNOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION OF RELIGIONS

159CAMPAIGNS OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE (1813-1814 A.D.)

40THE SLAVS

160ALEXANDER I AT THE CAPITULATION OF PARIS (1814 A.D.)

41SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ORGANISATION

161THE RUSSIAN OCCUPATION OF PARIS

42RELIGION

162ALEXANDER I AND THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA (1815 A.D.)

43THE VARANGIAN PERIOD (862-1054 A.D.)

163THE COMPLEX CHARACTER OF ALEXANDER I

44THE REIGN OF IGOR

164MINISTERIAL INFLUENCES; SPERANSKI AND ARAKTCHEIEV

45THE REGENCY OF OLGA

165EDUCATIONAL ADVANCES; THE LYCÉE AND THE LIBRARY

46SVIATOSLAV; THE VICTORY OF NORTH OVER SOUTH

166EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS FROM ST. PETERSBURG

47NESTOR’S ACCOUNT OF VLADIMIR’S CONVERSION

167LIBERATION OF THE PEASANTS OF THE BALTIC PROVINCES (1816-1818 A.D.)

48SVIATOPOLK IS SUCCEEDED BY IAROSLAV (1019 A.D.)

168THE EMPEROR AND THE QUAKERS

49THE CHARACTER OF THE PRINCIPALITIES

169SECRET SOCIETIES UNDER ALEXANDER I

50THE UNITY OF THE PRINCIPALITIES

170THE INTERREGNUM

51THE THEORY OF SUCCESSION

171THE ACCESSION OF NICHOLAS

52CIVIL WARS

172TRIAL OF THE CONSPIRATORS (1826 A.D.)

53JENGHIZ KHAN; THE TATAR INVASION

173THE CORONATION OF NICHOLAS (1826 A.D.)

54INFLUENCES OF TATAR DOMINATION

174CHANGES IN INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION

55ALEXANDER NEVSKI

175WAR WITH PERSIA (1826-1828 A.D.)

56THE GROWING ASCENDENCY OF MOSCOW

176WAR WITH TURKEY (1828-1829 A.D.)

57THE DESTRUCTION OF MOSCOW (1382 A.D.)

177THE POLISH INSURRECTION (1830-1831 A.D.)

58THE DEATH OF DMITRI DONSKOI; HIS PLACE IN HISTORY

178THE OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA AND THE RIOTS OCCASIONED BY IT (1830 A.D.)

59THE REIGN OF VASILI-DMITRIEVITCH (1389-1425 A.D.)

179THE WAR IN THE CAUCASUS (1829-1840 A.D.)

60VASILI VASILIEVITCH (AFTERWARDS CALLED “THE BLIND” OR “THE DARK”)

180THE EMPEROR’S CONSERVATIVE PATRIOTISM

61ACCESSION OF IVAN (III) VASILIEVITCH

181UNVEILING OF THE MONUMENT AT BORODINO

62CHARACTER AND AIMS OF IVAN

182DEATH OR RETIREMENT OF THE OLD MINISTERS

63IVAN VASILIEVITCH MARRIES THE GREEK PRINCESS SOPHIA (1472 A.D.)

183GREAT FIRE IN THE WINTER PALACE

64THE GROWTH OF AUTOCRACY

184THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CORONATION OF NICHOLAS I (1851 A.D.)

65SUBJUGATION OF THE REPUBLICS

185THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS’ VIEWS ON LOUIS NAPOLEON

66THE FINAL OVERTHROW OF THE TATARS

186EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE CRIMEAN WAR

67AFFAIRS OF LITHUANIA

187OUTBREAK OF THE CRIMEAN WAR (1853 A.D.)

68LAST YEARS OF IVAN; INHERITANCE LEFT TO HIS SONS

188FRANCE, ENGLAND, AND TURKEY IN ALLIANCE

69APPRECIATIONS OF IVAN VASILIEVITCH

189THE TAKING OF BOMARSUND

70ACCESSION OF VASILI IVANOVITCH (1505 A.D.)

190THE SEAT OF WAR TRANSFERRED TO THE CRIMEA (1854 A.D.)

71WARS WITH LITHUANIA

191THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA (1854 A.D.)

72WARS WITH THE TATARS

192THE SEIZURE OF BALAKLAVA (1854 A.D.)

73THE GROWING POWER OF RUSSIA

193THE ADVANCE ON SEBASTOPOL

74MAXINE THE GREEK

194THE BATTLE OF BALAKLAVA

75PRIVATE LIFE OF VASILI IVANOVITCH; HIS DEATH

195THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN (NOVEMBER 5TH, 1854)

76A FORECAST OF THE REIGN OF IVAN (IV) THE TERRIBLE

196DEATH OF THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS I

77THE MINORITY OF IVAN IV

197THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL

78IVAN ASSUMES THE REINS OF GOVERNMENT

198AMELIORATION IN THE CONDITION OF THE SOLDIER

79THE DISCOVERY OF SIBERIA

199THE EMANCIPATION OF THE SERFS (1861 A.D.)

80THE RESTRAINING INFLUENCE OF ANASTASIA

200EFFECTS OF THE NEW CONDITIONS

81IVAN’S ATROCITIES

201ABOLITION OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT (1863 A.D.)

82THE POLISH INVASION

202REFORMS IN THE COURTS OF JUSTICE

83THE REIGN OF TERROR

203THE POLISH INSURRECTION OF 1863

84THE MARCH AGAINST NOVGOROD

204THE SUBJECTION OF THE CAUCASUS (1864 A.D.)

85CARNAGE IN MOSCOW

205WARS WITH KHOKAND AND BOKHARA

86THE STRUGGLE FOR LIVONIA

206A GLANCE AT THE PAST HISTORY OF BOKHARA

87PROJECTS OF ALLIANCE WITH ENGLAND

207THE CONQUEST OF KHIVA (1873 A.D.)

88CHARACTER OF BORIS GODUNOV

208THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR (1877-1878 A.D.)

89WAR WITH SWEDEN

209THE REACTIONARY POLICY UNDER ALEXANDER III

90SERFDOM

210THE RUSSIFICATION OF THE PROVINCES.

91DEATH OF DMITRI (1591 A.D.)

211FOREIGN POLICY; THE FRENCH ALLIANCE

92THE REIGN OF BORIS (1598-1605 A.D.)

212THE CONQUEST OF THE TEKKE-TURCOMANS (1877-1881 A.D.)

93CAREER AND MURDER OF DEMETRIUS (1606 A.D.)

213ACCESSION OF NICHOLAS II (1894 A.D.)

94VASILI IVANOVITCH SHUISKI (1606-1610 A.D.)

214KUROPATKIN ON THE RUSSIAN POLICY OF EXPANSION

95ACCESSION OF THE HOUSE OF ROMANOV (1613 A.D.)

215RUSSIA IN MANCHURIA

96THE CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH OF PETER

216THE WAR WITH JAPAN

97PETER ASSERTS CONTROL

217I TREATY OF PARIS

98MILITARY REFORMS

218II TREATY OF BERLIN, 1878

99AZOV TAKEN FROM THE TURKS

219III THE HAGUE PEACE CONFERENCE

100SCHEMES OF CONQUEST

220Chapter I. Land and People and Early History (to 1054 A.D.)

101CONSPIRACY TO MURDER PETER

221Chapter II. The Period of The Principalities (1054-1224 A.D.)

102PETER TRAVELS TO ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE

222Chapter III. The Time of Tatar Domination (1235-1462 A.D.)

103THE INSURRECTION OF THE STRELITZ

223Chapter IV. From Ivan the Great to Ivan the Terrible (1462-1584 A.D.)

104WAR WITH SWEDEN

224Chapter V. The Century After Ivan the Terrible (1584-1682 A.D.)

105RALLYING FROM DEFEAT

225Chapter VI. Peter the Great (1682-1725 A.D.)

106THE ANTECEDENTS OF AN EMPRESS

226Chapter VII. Catherine I to Peter III (1725-1796 A.D.)

107MILITARY SUCCESS: FOUNDATION OF ST. PETERSBURG

227Chapter VIII. The Age of Catherine II (1769-1796 A.D.)

108RENEWED HOSTILITIES

228Chapter IX. Russia in the Napoleonic Epoch (1796-1815 A.D.)

109POLISH AFFAIRS

229Chapter X. Alexander I, Mystic and Humanitarian (1801-1825 A.D.)

110CHARLES XII INVADES RUSSIA (1707 A.D.)

230Chapter XI. The Reign of Nicholas I (1825-1854 A.D.)

111REVOLT OF THE COSSACKS OF THE DON; MAZEPPA

231Chapter XII. Alexander II, The Czar Liberator (1855-1881 A.D.)

112MAZEPPA JOINS CHARLES XII; PULTOWA

232Chapter XIII. Reaction, Expansion, and the War with Japan (1881-1904 A.D.)

113PETER AND THE POWERS

233Appendix. Documents Relating to Russian History

114CATHERINE ACKNOWLEDGED AS PETER’S WIFE (1711 A.D.)

234A GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RUSSIAN HISTORY BASED ON THE WORKS QUOTED, CITED, OR CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THE PRESENT HISTORY; WITH CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

115WAR WITH TURKEY

235THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

116WAR WITH SWEDEN (1714 A.D.)

236THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

117PETER AT THE HEIGHT OF POWER

237THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

118PETER’S SECOND EUROPEAN TOUR (1717 A.D.)

238THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

119THE CZAREVITCH ALEXIS DISINHERITED (1718 A.D.)

239THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

120DOMESTIC AFFAIRS

240THE TWENTIETH CENTURY