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Modernizer of Russia : Andrei Vinius, 1641-1716 / Kees Boterbloem, Professor of History, Department of History, University of South Florida.
- Title
- Modernizer of Russia : Andrei Vinius, 1641-1716 / Kees Boterbloem, Professor of History, Department of History, University of South Florida.
- Author
- Boterbloem, Kees, 1962-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DK114.5.V56 B67 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vii, 271 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- This book investigates Russia's transformation into a European Power by way of the activities of the tsarist translator and official Andrei Vinius, who became an important advisor to Peter the Great. Vinius emerges as an influential conduit of Western culture and technology, who played a key role in transforming Muscovy into Russia.
- Subject
- Vinius, Andrei Andreevich, 1641-1716
- Peter I, Emperor of Russia, 1672-1725 > Friends and associates
- 1600-1801
- 1600-talet
- 1700-talet
- Bureaucracy > Russia > History > 17th century
- Civil service > Russia > History > 17th century
- Russia > Politics and government > 1613-1689
- Russia > Politics and government > 1689-1801
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The disappearing Dutch and Russia's modernisation -- The young Vinius -- At the foreign office -- Intrepid diplomat -- The Miloslavskii ascendancy : medicine and mail -- Seeker in an age of transition -- Peter's confidant -- At the Siberian desk -- Old servants never die, they merely fade away -- The books of Andrei Vinius.
- ISBN
- 9781137323668
- 1137323663
- LCCN
- ^^2013003275
- OCLC
- 820434254
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library