Jan Hennings is Assistant Professor of History at Central European University, Budapest.

'Forces a reconsideration of long-established assumptions. There have been few more impressive scholarly débuts than this dazzling study.' Hamish Scott, Slavonic and East European Review

• Notes on transliteration, spelling, and dates; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Barbarous ceremonies? Russia's places in early modern diplomacy; 2. Facts and fictions: the organisation of diplomatic practice; 3. Through the prism of ritual: Anglo-Russian encounters in the seventeenth century; 4. Stage and audience: the Grand Embassy to Vienna (1698) and Peter I's visit to Paris (1717); 5. From insult to imperator: changes and continuities in the reign of Peter I; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Jan Hennings is Assistant Professor of History at Central European University, Budapest.

'Forces a reconsideration of long-established assumptions. There have been few more impressive scholarly débuts than this dazzling study.' Hamish Scott, Slavonic and East European Review

• Notes on transliteration, spelling, and dates; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Barbarous ceremonies? Russia's places in early modern diplomacy; 2. Facts and fictions: the organisation of diplomatic practice; 3. Through the prism of ritual: Anglo-Russian encounters in the seventeenth century; 4. Stage and audience: the Grand Embassy to Vienna (1698) and Peter I's visit to Paris (1717); 5. From insult to imperator: changes and continuities in the reign of Peter I; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Jan Hennings is Assistant Professor of History at Central European University, Budapest.

'Forces a reconsideration of long-established assumptions. There have been few more impressive scholarly débuts than this dazzling study.' Hamish Scott, Slavonic and East European Review

• Notes on transliteration, spelling, and dates; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Barbarous ceremonies? Russia's places in early modern diplomacy; 2. Facts and fictions: the organisation of diplomatic practice; 3. Through the prism of ritual: Anglo-Russian encounters in the seventeenth century; 4. Stage and audience: the Grand Embassy to Vienna (1698) and Peter I's visit to Paris (1717); 5. From insult to imperator: changes and continuities in the reign of Peter I; Conclusion; Bibliography.