Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-10 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
The first formally organized educational institution in Russia was established in 1685 by two Greek hieromonks, Ioannikios and Sophronios Leichoudes. Like many
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-26 - Publisher: BRILL
This collection of essays presents new insights into what shaped and constituted the Renaissance and early modern views of fate and fortune. It argues that thes
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-30 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
The Enterprisers traces the emergence of the "modern" school in Russia during the reigns of Peter I and his immediate successors, up to the accession of Catheri
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
This study examines the continuity of Russian policies during the early modern period in the midst of constant change. The author analyzes how Russian rulers fr
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-12 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
A History of Education in Modern Russia is the first book to trace the significance of education in Russia from Peter the Great's reign all the way through to V
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-14 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Centuries after he ruled Russia from 1689 to 1725, Peter the Great remains one of the most revered and enigmatic leaders in world history. Now in a new edition,
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-21 - Publisher: Routledge
This lucid account of Russian and Soviet history presents major trends and events from Kievan Rus’ to Vladimir Putin’s presidency in the twenty-first centur
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-11 - Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
As the cultural and ideological foundations of imperial Russia were threatened by forces of modernity, an array of Orthodox churchmen, theologians, and lay thin