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This book introduces readers to a little-known place and time in world history - early modern Russia, from its beginnings as Muscovy, in the fourteenth century, through the reign of Peter I (1689-1725) - by portraying the lives of representative individuals from the major levels of the society of that era. The portraits, written by professional historians, are imaginative reconstructions or composites of individual lives, rather than biographies. The portraits are arranged into socio-political categories, and include members of ruling families, government servitors, clerks, military...

This book introduces readers to a little-known place and time in world history - early modern Russia, from its beginnings as Muscovy, in the fourteenth century, through the reign of Peter I (1689-1725) - by portraying the lives of representative individuals from the major levels of the society of that era. The portraits, written by professional historians, are imaginative reconstructions or composites of individual lives, rather than biographies. The portraits are arranged into socio-political categories, and include members of ruling families, government servitors, clerks, military...

Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides imagined biographies of twenty figures from all walks of life living in Eastern Europe from 800 to 1250. The book utilises the existing source base, as well as comparative material from other places and times to create the biographies. The figures portrayed are from a range of backgrounds from key players such as Bolesław I, king of Poland, Anna Komnene a Byzantine princess and historian, and Subodei, the Mongol general, to everyday figures such as a Viking explorer in Rus', a woman from Novgorod, a Jewish traveler, and a Rus'...

Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides imagined biographies of twenty figures from all walks of life living in Eastern Europe from 800 to 1250. The book utilises the existing source base, as well as comparative material from other places and times to create the biographies. The figures portrayed are from a range of backgrounds from key players such as Bolesław I, king of Poland, Anna Komnene a Byzantine princess and historian, and Subodei, the Mongol general, to everyday figures such as a Viking explorer in Rus', a woman from Novgorod, a Jewish traveler, and a Rus'...