From the Lion to the Double-Headed Eagle. Scots in Russia. 1500-1725
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From the Lion to the Double-Headed Eagle. Scots in Russia. 1500-1725
39.99 €
This book contains information about the Scots in Russia, beginning with early references to ethnic contacts between the Russians at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries and continuing through the first quarter of the 18th century, when Scotland became part of the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707) and Russia was officially declared an empire in 1721. The publication includes biographical information (covering over a thousand individuals), detailing clan or family affiliations, life dates, family connections, career achievements, social status dynamics, property status, and religious and professional preferences. The research source base is based on documents from Russian and international archives, museums, libraries, private collections and foundations, rare manuscripts and printed publications, periodicals, iconographic, heraldic, and cartographic materials. This publication is intended to become a research tool for specialists in the history of Russia, Britain, the Baltic region, and early modern Central and Eastern Europe, as well as for anyone interested in international relations, military anthropology, genealogy, cultural contacts, and the problems of preserving ethnic identity, integration, assimilation, and naturalization.
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