Lindsey Hughes was an internationally renowned authority on 17th- and 18th-century Russian history, in particular on the age of Peter the Great. As well as teaching at London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies, where she was a professor and head of the history department, she wrote prolifically and was a valued member of an influential cohort of scholars brought together in the Eighteenth-Century Russia Study Group founded in 1968 by Anthony Cross. Her publications include Russia in the Age of Peter the Great (1998), Peter the Great: A Biography (2004) and Sophia: Regent of Russia, 1657-1704 (1990).Erika Monahan is Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, USA. She is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (2016).

• List of IllustrationsList of MapsAbbreviations, Dates, Spellings and TransliterationTimelineFamily TreesGenealogical TablePreface to the First EditionNote to the First EditionIntroduction1. Romanov Roots2. The Pious Tsar: Alexis, 1645-16763. Transformations: Fedor, Sophia and Ivan V, 1676-16894. Tsar Peter, 1682-17255. Catherine I, Peter II, Anna Ioannovna and Ivan VI, 1725-17426. Elizabeth and Peter III, 1742-17637. Philosopher on the Throne: Catherine II, 1762-17968. The Napoleonic Era, 1796—1825: Paul I and Alexander I9. Consistent Autocracy: Nicholas I, 1825-185510. Reform: Alexander II11. Reaction: Alexander III12. The Last Romanov Tsar, 1894-191813. Ruling the Russian Empire14. Postscript, 1918-2017NotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Lindsey Hughes was an internationally renowned authority on 17th- and 18th-century Russian history, in particular on the age of Peter the Great. As well as teaching at London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies, where she was a professor and head of the history department, she wrote prolifically and was a valued member of an influential cohort of scholars brought together in the Eighteenth-Century Russia Study Group founded in 1968 by Anthony Cross. Her publications include Russia in the Age of Peter the Great (1998), Peter the Great: A Biography (2004) and Sophia: Regent of Russia, 1657-1704 (1990).Erika Monahan is Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, USA. She is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (2016).

• List of IllustrationsList of MapsAbbreviations, Dates, Spellings and TransliterationTimelineFamily TreesGenealogical TablePreface to the First EditionNote to the First EditionIntroduction1. Romanov Roots2. The Pious Tsar: Alexis, 1645-16763. Transformations: Fedor, Sophia and Ivan V, 1676-16894. Tsar Peter, 1682-17255. Catherine I, Peter II, Anna Ioannovna and Ivan VI, 1725-17426. Elizabeth and Peter III, 1742-17637. Philosopher on the Throne: Catherine II, 1762-17968. The Napoleonic Era, 1796—1825: Paul I and Alexander I9. Consistent Autocracy: Nicholas I, 1825-185510. Reform: Alexander II11. Reaction: Alexander III12. The Last Romanov Tsar, 1894-191813. Ruling the Russian Empire14. Postscript, 1918-2017NotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Lindsey Hughes was an internationally renowned authority on 17th- and 18th-century Russian history, in particular on the age of Peter the Great. As well as teaching at London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies, where she was a professor and head of the history department, she wrote prolifically and was a valued member of an influential cohort of scholars brought together in the Eighteenth-Century Russia Study Group founded in 1968 by Anthony Cross. Her publications include Russia in the Age of Peter the Great (1998), Peter the Great: A Biography (2004) and Sophia: Regent of Russia, 1657-1704 (1990).Erika Monahan is Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, USA. She is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (2016).

• List of IllustrationsList of MapsAbbreviations, Dates, Spellings and TransliterationTimelineFamily TreesGenealogical TablePreface to the First EditionNote to the First EditionIntroduction1. Romanov Roots2. The Pious Tsar: Alexis, 1645-16763. Transformations: Fedor, Sophia and Ivan V, 1676-16894. Tsar Peter, 1682-17255. Catherine I, Peter II, Anna Ioannovna and Ivan VI, 1725-17426. Elizabeth and Peter III, 1742-17637. Philosopher on the Throne: Catherine II, 1762-17968. The Napoleonic Era, 1796—1825: Paul I and Alexander I9. Consistent Autocracy: Nicholas I, 1825-185510. Reform: Alexander II11. Reaction: Alexander III12. The Last Romanov Tsar, 1894-191813. Ruling the Russian Empire14. Postscript, 1918-2017NotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex