Alekseeva: M. A. Alekseeva, Graviura petrovskogo vremeni (L., 1990)
Bantysh-Kamensky: N. N. Bantysh-Kamensky, Obzor vneshnikh snoshenii Rossii s derzhavami inostrannymi, 4 vols (M., 1894–1902)
Bassewitz: H-F. Bassewitz, ‘Zapiski grafa Bassevicha, sluzhashchie k poiasneniiu nekotorykh sobytii iz vremeni tsarstvovaniia Petra Velikogo (1713–1725)’, Russkii arkhiv, 3 (1865)
Bergholz, I: Dnevnik kamer-iunkera Fridrikha-Vil'gel'ma Berkhgol'tsa 1721–1725. (M., 2000) (1721–22)
Bergholz, II: Dnevnik kammer-iunkera Berkhgol'tsa, vedennyi im v Rossii v tsarstvovanie Petra Velikogo s 1721–1725 g. 3rd ed. (M., 1902–3) (1723–25)
Bespiatykh: Peterburg Petra I v inostrannykh opisaniiakh, ed. Iu. Bespiatykh (L., 1991)
BP: Bumagi imp. Petra I, izdannye akademikom A. Bychkovym (SPb, 1873)
BRAPG: Britain and Russia in the Age of Peter the Great. Historical Documents, ed. S. Dixon et al. (London, 1998)
CASS: Canadian-American Slavic Studies
CMRS: Cahiers du monde russe et sovietique
Consett: For God and Peter the Great. The Works of Thomas Consett, 1723–1729, ed. J. Cracraft (Boulder, 1982)
CSP: Canadian Slavonic Papers
DPPS: Doklady i prigovory sostoiavshiesia v pravitel'stvuiushchem Senate v tsarstvovanie Petra Velikogo, vols I–VI (SPb, 1880–1901)
DR: Dvortsovye razriady, 4 vols (SPb, 1852–55)
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Golombievsky: A. A. Golombievsky, Sotrudniki Petra Velikogo (M., 1903)
Gordon: Patrick Gordon's diary, Tsentral'nyi Gosudarstvennyi Voenno-Istoricheskii Arkhiv, f. 846, op. 15, ed. khr. 1–7
Grebeniuk: ed. V. P. Grebeniuk, Panegiricheskaia literatura petrovskogo vremeni (M., 1979)
GRM: Gosudarstvennyi Russkii Muzei
Grund: Georg Grund, Bericht über Russland in den Jahren 1705–1710 (Account of Russia in the Years 1705–1710) ed. Iu. N. Bespiatykh (SPb, 1992)
JGO: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas
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L.: Leningrad
LOI: Leningradskoe otdelenie instituta istorii Akademii Nauk, f. 270 (Letters and Papers of Peter I) (Now: Sankt-Peterburgskii Filial Instituta Rossiiskoi Istorii Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk)
M.: Moscow
Medals: I. G. Spassky and E. Shchukina, Medals and Coins of the Age of Peter the Great (L., 1974)
MIGO: Materialy dlia istorii Gangutskoi operatsii, 3 vols (Petrograd, 1914)
Muller: A. Muller, ed. and trans. The Spiritual Regulation of Peter the Great, (Seattle, 1972)
Nartov: Rasskazy Nartova o Petre Velikom, ed. L. N. Maikov (SPb, 1891)
Nepliuev: Zapiski Ivana Ivanovicha Nepliueva (1693–1773) (SPb, 1893)
Neuville: F. de la Neuville, A Curious and New Account of Muscovy in the Year 1689, ed. L. Hughes (London, 1994)
OV: Osmnadtsatyi vek. Istoricheskii sbornik izdannyi P. Bartevenym, 4 vols (M., 1869)
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Peterson: C. Peterson, Peter the Great's Administrative and Judicial Reforms (Stockholm, 1979)
PGW: Peter the Great and the West: New Perspectives, ed. Lindsey Hughes (Basingstoke, 2000)
PiB: Pis'ma i bumagi Imperatora Petra Velikogo, I: 1689–1701 (1887); II: 1702–3 (1889), III: 1704–5 (1893); IV: 1706 (1900); V: 1707, Jan.–June (1907); VI: 1707, July–Dec. (1912); VII (i): 1708, Jan.–June (1918); VII (ii): 1708, Jan.–June, notes (1946); VIII (i): 1708, July–Dec. (1948); VIII (ii): 1708, July–Dec., notes (1951); IX (i): 1709 (1950) and (ii): 1709, notes (1952); X: 1710 (1956); XI (i): 1711, Jan.–June (1962) and (ii): 1711, July–Dec. (1964); XII(i): 1712 (1975) and XII (ii): 1712 (1977); XIII (i): 1713, Jan.–June (1992)
PRO: Public Record Office
PRG: Pis'ma russkikh gosudarei i drugikh osob tsarskogo semeistva, 3 vols (M., 1861)
PSZ: Polnoe sobranie zakonov rossiiskoi imperii, I–II (1649–88); III (1689–99); IV (1700–12); V (1713–19); VI (1720–22); VII (1723–27) (SPb, 1830)
PV: Petr Velikii. Vospominaniia. Dnevnikovye zapisi. Anekdoty, ed. E. Anisimov (SPb, 1993)
PZh: Pokhodnye zhurnaly Petra I 1695–1726 (SPb, 1853–55) (separate vols for each year)
RGADA: Rossiiskii (formerly Tsentral'nyi) gosudarstvennyi arkhiv drevnikh aktov
Riasanovsky: Nicholas Riasanovsky The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thought (Oxford, 1985)
RNB: Rossiiskaia Natsional'naia Biblioteka, St Petersburg
RR: Russian Review
RRP: Russia in the Reign of Peter the Great: Old and New Perspectives, ed. A. G. Cross (Cambridge, 1998)
RWEC: RussiaandtheWorldof theEighteenth Century, eds R. Bartlett et al. (Columbus, Oh., 1988)
Sbornik: Sbornik vypisok iz arkhivnykh bumag o Petre Velikom 2 vols (M., 1872)
SEER: Slavonic and East European Review
SGECRN: Study Group on 18th-century Russia Newsletter
SIRIO: Sbornik imperatorskogo rossiiskogo istoricheskogo obshchestva
Solov'ev: S. M. Solov'ev, History of Russia, vol. XXVI Peter the Great. A Reign Begins 1689–1703, trans. L. Hughes (Gulf Breeze, 1994)
SPb: St Petersburg
SR: Slavic Review
SSH: Soviet Studies in History
Stählin: Jacob Stählin, Podlinnye anekdoty o Petre Velikom (L., 1990)
Ustrialov: N. Ustrialov, Istoriia tsarstvovaniia Petra Velikogo, 6 vols (SPb., 1858–69)
VI: Voprosy istorii
Viktorov: A. Viktorov, Opisanie zapisnykh knig i bumag starinnykh dvortsovykh prikazov, 1613–1725, 2 vols (M., 1883)
Weber: F. C. Weber. The Present State of Russia, 2 vols (London, 1722–23)
Whitworth: Charles Whitworth, An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710. Rossiia v nachale XVIII veka. Sochineniia Ch. Uitvorta (M.-L., 1988)
WOR: A Window on Russia: Papers from the V International Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, Gargnano, 1994, eds M. di Salvo and L. Hughes (Rome, 1996)
ZA: A. Voskresensky, Zakonodatel'nye akty Petra I, vol. I (M.-L., 1945)
200-letie: 200-letie Kabineta ego imp. velichestva 1704–1904 (SPb, 1911)
Russian archival references follow Russian practice: f. = fond [collection], op. = opis' [section]; d. = delo [file], kn. = kniga (book), l. = list [folio] (ll. = listy)