Carol Belkin Stevens is an Associate Professor at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, specialising in early modern Russia. She is the author of Soldiers on the Steppe (1996) and has been published in numerous journals including Russian History.

• PART I 1450-1598The constituents for Muscovite power, c.1450 Creating a Muscovite army, 1462-1533 The army that won an empire PART II 1598-1697The political prelude to military reform The Thirteen Years War, 1654-67 The steppe frontier after Razzin, 1672-97 PART III 1698-1730Peter the Great and the beginning of the Great Northern War Military instiutionalization after PoltavaConclusion: Russiawithout Peter

Carol Belkin Stevens is an Associate Professor at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, specialising in early modern Russia. She is the author of Soldiers on the Steppe (1996) and has been published in numerous journals including Russian History.

• PART I 1450-1598The constituents for Muscovite power, c.1450 Creating a Muscovite army, 1462-1533 The army that won an empire PART II 1598-1697The political prelude to military reform The Thirteen Years War, 1654-67 The steppe frontier after Razzin, 1672-97 PART III 1698-1730Peter the Great and the beginning of the Great Northern War Military instiutionalization after PoltavaConclusion: Russiawithout Peter