The Present condition of the Muscovite empire till the year 1699 : in two letters : the first from a gentleman who was conversant with the Muscovite ambassadour in Holland, the second from a person of quality at Vienna, concerning the late Muscovite embassy, his present czarish majesty, the Russian empire and Great-Tartary : with the life of the present emperour of China, by Father J....

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Imperial boundaries : Cossack communities and empire-building in the age of Peter the Great / by Boeck, Brian J., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Beyond borders, between worlds : Russian empire and the making of the Don steppe frontier -- People and power on the frontier : liberty, diversity, and de-centralization in the Don region to 1700 -- A middle ground between autonomy and dependence : the raiding economy of the Don steppe frontier to 1700 -- Boundaries of integration or exclusion? …”
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Imperial boundaries : Cossack communities and empire-building in the age of Peter the Great / by Boeck, Brian J., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Beyond borders, between worlds : Russian empire and the making of the Don steppe frontier -- People and power on the frontier : liberty, diversity, and de-centralization in the Don region to 1700 -- A middle ground between autonomy and dependence : the raiding economy of the Don steppe frontier to 1700 -- Boundaries of integration or exclusion? …”
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Russian notions of power and state in a European perspective, 1462-1725 : assessing the significance of Peter's reign / by Sashalmi, Endre, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Russia and Europe: clarification of terms, and the problem of the state -- Issues of methodology, reception, and the benefits of a long-term approach -- Territoriality, the name, and the nature of the polity: from the principality of Moscow to the Russian Empire -- The idea of the state in Western Christendom in the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Era -- The role of metaphors and allegorical personifications in the development of the concept of the state in Western Christendom -- The meaning(s) of European perspective -- The birth and meaning of the "Russian state narrative" -- The consequences of the state narrative: the discovery of Gosudarstvo by Russian history-writing -- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Muscovite perceptions of ruling power: characteristics and methodological aspects of a comparison with Western Christendom -- The problem of Samoderzhavie -- PART TWO. …”
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