Peter the Great and the West

LINDSEY HUGHES is Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and Eastern Studies, University College London.

'What is new about this book is not so much the perspectives, but the sources which the authors bring to bear on the perennial questions associated with 'the rights and wrongs, successes and failures of the reign of Peter the Great.' - Russian Review

• List of Tables, Maps and Illustrations List of Abbreviations Note on Transliteration and Proper Names List of Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: OPENING ADDRESS The Old Man from Cambridge, Mrs Cross, and Other Anglo-Petrine Matters of Due Weight and Substance; A.Cross PART II: THE REFORMS IN CONTEXT The Petrine Reforms and their Impact; A.Kamenskii Administrative Reforms in the Russian Empire: Western Models and Russian Implementation; A.Medushevskii PART III: PETER AND BRITAIN Changing Perspectives: British Views of Russia from the Grand Embassy to the Peace of Nystad; J.Hartley Diligent and Faithful Servant: Peter the Great's Apprentices in England; J.Lane Peter the Great: the Scottish Dimension; D.Fedosov PART IV: MARITIME HISTORY British Merchants and Russian Men-of-War: the Rise of the Russian Baltic Fleet; R.Warner State, Navy and the Origin of the Petrine Forest Cadastral Survey; A.Karimov Peter the Great and English Maritime Technology; W.F. Ryan PART V: DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY HISTORY Peter the Great and the Conquest of Azov: 1695-96; G.Herd Peter the Great and the Baltic; D.Kirby Why St Petersburg?; R.E.Jones Seven Years with Peter the Great: the Dutchman Jacob de Bie's Observations; T.Eckman PART VI: THE COURT AND THE ARTS Catherine I, her Court and Courtiers; J.Alexander Images of Greatness: Portraits of Peter I; L.Hughes Index