Collected Works in Ten Volumes. Volume 5. Where Should We Sail? Russia After Peter the Great – Anisimov Evgeny – New Literary Review – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-4448-3051-2
Collected Works in Ten Volumes. Volume 5. Where Should We Sail? Russia After Peter the Great
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Collected Works in Ten Volumes. Volume 5. Where Should We Sail? Russia After Peter the Great
19.99 €
The distinguished historian Evgeny Anisimov, a specialist in Russian history of the 17th and 18th centuries and the author of several hundred scholarly publications, is one of the few scholars who has found a delicate balance between academic research and education. The personality and reforms of Peter the Great, the history of political investigation in Russia, the role of women on the Russian throne, and the fates of Russian political figures—the author explores a multitude of topics crucial to understanding the winding paths of Russian modernization. Each volume of his collected works is a separate monograph devoted to a particular aspect of this complex topic. Drawing on archival sources and the preceding historiographical tradition, Evgeny Anisimov describes the distant past as a living era, closely connected to the present.
The period between the reigns of Peter the Great and Catherine II often becomes a kind of lacuna in the public historical imagination. Against the backdrop of these two great reigns, the decades separating them are usually perceived as an insignificant succession of monarchs and temporary rulers. Historian Evgeny Anisimov restores this era's scope and substance, chronicling the first three post-Petrine reigns—those of Catherine I, Peter II, and Anna Ioannovna. The reader unfolds the drama of the struggle for Peter's legacy: the rise and fall of Menshikov, the attempt by the "supreme leaders" to limit imperial power in 1730, the myth of the "Bironovshchina." The author asks what became of the country to which Peter left neither a worthy successor nor a political testament—and discovers that the system the autocrat created proved far more resilient than the fates of those who, by chance, wielded it.
The period between the reigns of Peter the Great and Catherine II often becomes a kind of lacuna in the public historical imagination. Against the backdrop of these two great reigns, the decades separating them are usually perceived as an insignificant succession of monarchs and temporary rulers. Historian Evgeny Anisimov restores this era's scope and substance, chronicling the first three post-Petrine reigns—those of Catherine I, Peter II, and Anna Ioannovna. The reader unfolds the drama of the struggle for Peter's legacy: the rise and fall of Menshikov, the attempt by the "supreme leaders" to limit imperial power in 1730, the myth of the "Bironovshchina." The author asks what became of the country to which Peter left neither a worthy successor nor a political testament—and discovers that the system the autocrat created proved far more resilient than the fates of those who, by chance, wielded it.
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