Biographies & Memoirs

Selected Bibliography

ADLERFELD, M. GUSTAVUS, The Military History of Charles XII, 3 vols. London, J. and P. Knapton, 1740.

ALLEN, W. E. D., The Ukraine: A History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1940.

ANDERSON, M. S., Britain’s Discovery of Russia, 1553–1815. London, Macmillan, 1958.

, Peter the Great. London, Thames and Hudson, 1978.

ANDERSON, R. C., Naval Wars in the Baltic During the Sailing Ship Epoch, 1522–1850. London, C. Gilbert-Wood, 1910.

ANDREEV, A. I., editor, Peter the Great: A Collection of Essays (Petr Veliky: Sbornik statei). Moscow-Leningrad, 1947.

AVVAKUM, The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum by Himself, translated by Jane Harrison and Hope Mirrlees. London, Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1924.

BAIN, R. NISBET, Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire. New York, G. P. Putnam, 1895.

——, The Pupils of Peter the Great. London, Constable, 1897.

BELL, JOHN, Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia to Various Parts of Asia. Edinburgh, 1806.

BENGTSSON, FRANS G., The Life of Charles XII, translated by Naomi Walford. London, Macmillan, 1960.

BILLINGTON, JAMES J., The Icon and the Axe. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.

BLACK, CYRIL E., Rewriting Russian History. New York, Vintage Books, 1962.

BOGOSLOVSKY (Bogoslovskii), M. M., Peter I: Materials for a Biography (Petr I: Materialy dlya biografii), 5 vols. Moscow, 1940–1948.

BOWEN, MARJORIE, William Prince of Orange. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1928.

BRIDGE, VICE ADMIRAL CYPRIAN A. G., editor, History of the Russian Fleet During the Reign of Peter the Great by a Contemporary Englishman. London, The Navy Records Society, 1899.

BROWNING, OSCAR, Charles XII of Sweden. London, Hurst and Blackett, 1899.

BRUCE, PETER HENRY, Mémoires. London, 1782.

BURNET, GILBERT (Bishop of Salisbury), History of His Own Time, 6 vols. Edinburgh, Hamilton, Balfour and Neill, 1753. The New Cambridge Biographies & Memoirs, Volume VI: The Rise of Great Britain and Russia, 1688–1725, edited by J. S. Bromley. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1970.

CARR, FRANK G. G., Maritime Greenwich. London, Pitkin, 1969.

CARR, JOHN LAURENCE, Life in France Under Louis XIV. New York, G. P.

Putnam’s Sons, 1966.

CASSELS, LAVENDER, The Struggle for the Ottoman Empire, 1717–1740. London, John Murray, 1966.

CHANCE, JAMES FREDERICK, George I and the Northern War. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1909.

CHURCHILL, WINSTON S., Marlborough: His Life and Times, 6 vols. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933–1938.

CLARK, G. N., The Later Stuarts, 1660–1714. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1934.

Collection of the Imperial Russian Historical Society (Sbornik Imperatorskago Russkago Istoricheska go Obshchestva), 148 vols. St. Petersburg, 1867–1916.

COLLINS, SAMUEL, The Present State of Russia. London, Printed by John Winter for D. Newman, 1671.

CRACRAFT, JAMES, The Church Reform of Peter the Great. London, Macmillan, 1971.

——, “Feofan Prokopovich,” in The Eighteenth Century in Russia, edited by J. G. Garrard. Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1973.

CRULL, JODOCUS, The Ancient and Present State of Muscovy. London, A. Roper, 1698.

DE GRUNWALD, CONSTANTIN, Peter the Great, translated from the French by Viola Garvin. London, Saunders, MacGibbon & Kee, 1956.

DE JONG, ALEX, Fire and Water: A Life of Peter the Great. London, Collins, 1979.

DMYTRYSHYN, BASIL, editor, Modernization of Russia Under Peter I and Catherine 11. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1974.

DURUKAN, ZEYNEP M., The Harem of the Topkapi Palace. Istanbul, Hilal Matbaacilik Koll., 1973.

EVELYN, JOHN, The Diary of John Evelyn, with an Introduction and Notes by Austin Dobson, 3 vols. London, Macmillan, 1906.

FEDOTOV, G. P., The Russian Religious Mind. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1966.

FISCHER, LOUIS, The Life of Lenin. New York, Harper and Row, 1964.

FISHER, H. A. L., A History of Europe, Vol I. London, Fontana Library, 1960.

FLORINSKY, MICHAEL T., Russia: A History and an Interpretation, 2 vols. New York, Macmillan, 1953.

GASIOROWSKA, XENIA, The Image of Peter the Great in Russian Fiction. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1979.

GEYL, PIETER, History of the Low Countries: Episodes and Problems. The Trevelyan Lectures, 1963. London, Macmillan, 1964.

GIBB, HAMILTON, and HAROLD BOWEN, Islamic Society and the West. London and New York, Oxford University Press, 1950.

GOOCH, G. P., Louis XV: The Monarchy in Decline. London, Longmans, 1956.

GORDON, ALEXANDER, History of Peter the Great, 2 vols. Aberdeen, F. Douglass and W. Murray, 1755.

GORDON OF AUCHLEUCHRIES, GENERAL PATRICK, Passages from the Diary of, 1635–1699. Aberdeen, Printed for The Spalding Club, 1859.

GRAHAM, STEPHEN, Peter the Great. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1929.

GREY, IAN, Peter the Great. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1960.

HATTON, RAGNILD M., Charles XII of Sweden. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968.

——, Europe in the Age of Louis XIV. London, Thames and Hudson, 1969.

HINGLEY, RONALD, The Tsars: Russian Autocrats, 1533–1917. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968.

JEFFERYES, JAMES, Captain James Jefferyes’s Letters from the Swedish Army, 1707–1709, edited by Ragnild Hatton. Stockholm, Kungl. Boktryckeriet, P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1954.

JOLLIFFE, JOHN, “Lord Carlisle’s Embassy to Moscow,” in The Cornhill, Autumn 1967.

KAFENGAUZ, B. B., Russia Under Peter the First (Rossiya pri Petre Pervom). Moscow, 1955.

KLUCHEVSKY, VASILY O., Peter the Great, translated by Liliana Archibald. New York, Vintage Books, 1958.

KORB, JOHANN GEORG, Diary of an Austrian Secretary of Legation at the Court of Tsar Peter the Great, translated and edited by the Count MacDonnel, 2 vols. in one London, Frank Cass & Co., 1968.

KUNSTLER, CHARLES, La Vie quotidienne sous la Régence. Paris, Hachette, 1960.

MALAND, DAVID, Europe in the Seventeenth Century. London, Macmillan, 1968.

MANSTEIN, C. H., Memoirs of Russia, 1727–1744. London, 1773.

MARSDEN, CHRISTOPHER, Palmyra of the North: The First Days of St. Petersburg. London, Faber & Faber, 1942.

MAVOR, JAMES, An Economic History of Russia, 2 vols. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1914.

MAZOUR, ANATOLE G., Modern Russian Historiography. Princeton, Van Nostrand, 1958 ed.

MILUKOV, PAUL, and others, History of Russia, Vol. 1. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1968.

MITCHELL, R. J., and M. D. R. LEYS, A History of London Life. London, Penguin Books, 1968.

MITFORD, NANCY, Frederick the Great. New York, Harper and Row, 1964.

O’BRIEN, C. BICKFORD, Russia Under Two Tsars, 1682–1689: The Regency of Sophia. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1952.

OGG, DAVID, Europe of the Ancien Regime, 1715–1783. London, Collins, 1967.

OKENFUSS, MAX J., “The Jesuit Origins of Petrine Education,” in The Eighteenth Century in Russia, edited by J. G. Garrard. Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1973.

——, “Russian Students in Europe in the Age of Peter the Great,” in The Eighteenth Century in Russia, edited by J. G. Garrard. Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1963.

OLEARIUS, J. ALBERT DE M., The Voyages and Travels of the Ambassadors Sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia, translated by John Davies. London, 1669.

OLIVA, L. JAY, Peter the Great. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1970.

PARES, BERNARD, A History of Russia. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.

PAUL OF ALEPPO, The Travels of Macarius: Extracts from the Diary of the Travels of Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch, written by his son, Paul, Archdeacon of Aleppo, 1652–1660, translated by F. C. Balfour. London, Oxford University Press, 1936.

PAVLENKO, N. I., NIKIFOROV, L. A., and VOLKOV, M. I., Russia in the Period of the Reforms of Peter I (Rossiia v period reform Petra I). Moscow, “Nauka,” 1973.

PENZER, N. M., The Harem. London, Spring Books, 1965.

PEPYS, SAMUEL, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 3 vols., edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1970.

PERRY, JOHN, The State of Russia Under the Present Tsar. Printed for Benjamin Tooke at the Middle Temple Gate, Fleet Street, 1716.

PETER THE GREAT, Letters and Papers (Pisma i Bumagi Imperatora Petra Velikogo). St. Petersburg-Moscow, 1887– . (Twelve volumes have so far been published. The most recent, Vol. 12, carries the work through 1712.)

PIPES, RICHARD, Russia Under the Old Regime. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974.

PLATONOV, SERGEI F., History of Russia. New York, Macmillan, 1929.

PLUMB, J. H., The First Four Georges. London, Collins-Fontana Library, 1968.

POKROVSKY, MICHAEL N., History of Russia: From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Commercial Capitalism, translated and edited by J. D. Clarkson and M. R. M. Griffiths. New York, International Publishers, 1931.

Poltava: A Collection of Articles on the Two Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle (Poltava: k 250 letiyu Poltavskogo srazheniya, Sbornik statei). Moscow, 1959.

Portraits of Peter’s Time: The Exhibition Catalogue (Portret Petrovskogo vremeni: katalog vystavki). Leningrad, 1973.

PREDTECHENSKY, A. B., editor, Petersburg of Peter’s Time: Studies (Petersburg Petrovskogo vremeni: ocherki). Leningrad, 1948.

PUTNAM, PETER, Seven Britons in Imperial Russia, 1698–1812. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1952.

RAEFF, MARC, Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia: The Eighteenth Century Nobility. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1966.

——, editor, Peter the Great: Reformer or Revolutionary? Boston, D. C. Heath, 1966.

Relation fidèle de ce qui s’est passé au sujet du Jugement rendu contre le Prince Alexei, et des circonstances de sa mort. From the Library of the Palazzo de San Donato, Florence, Italy.

RIASONOVSKY, NICHOLAS v., A History of Russia. New York, Oxford University Press, 1963.

RUNCIMAN, STEVEN, The Fall of Constantinople, 1453. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1969.

The Russian Primary Chronicle, translated and edited by Samuel H. Cross and Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor. Cambridge, Mass., The Medieval Academy of America, 1953.

SAINT-SIMON, LE DUC DE, Mémoires, 6 vols. Paris, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Editions Gallimard, 1965.

SCHELTEMA, M. J., Anecdotes historiques sur Pierre le Grand et sur ses voyages en Hollande et à Zaandam. Lausanne, Marc Ducloux, 1842.

SCHUYLER, EUGENE, Peter the Great, 2 vols. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1884.

SHAFIROV, P. P., A Discourse Concerning the Just Causes of the War Between Sweden and Russia: 1700–1721. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Oceana Publications, 1973.

SHCHERBATOV, M. M., editor, Journal de Pierre le Grand depuis l’année 1698 jusqu’ à la conclusion de la paix de Neustadt. Berlin, 1773.

SOLOVEV, S. M., History of Russia from Earliest Times (Istoriya Rossii s drevneishikh vremen), 15 vols. Moscow, 1960–1966. STAEHLIN VON STORCKSBURG, Original Anecdotes of Peter the Great. London, J. Murray, 1787.

STOYE, JOHN, Europe Unfolding, 1648–1688. London, Collins-Fontana Library, 1969.

SUMNER, B. H., Peter the Great and the Emergence of Russia. New York, Collier Books, 1965.

——, Peter the Great and the Ottoman Empire. Hamden, Conn., Archer Books, 1965.

TARLE, E. V., The Russian Fleet and the Foreign Policy of Peter I (Russkii flot i vneshnyaya politika Petra I). Moscow, 1949.

——, The Northern War (Severnaya Voina). Moscow, 1958. TREASURE, G. R. R., Seventeenth Century France. London, Rivingtons, 1966.

TREVELYAN, G. M., The English Revolution, 1688–89. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1938.

USTRYALOV, N. G., History of the Reign of Peter the Great (Istoriya tsarstvovaniya Petra Velikago), 6 vols. St. Petersburg, 1858–1863.

VOYCE, ARTHUR, Moscow and the Roots of Russian Culture. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1964.

WALISZEWSKI, KASIMIERZ, Peter the Great. New York, Appleton, 1897.

WEBER, FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN, The Present State of Russia, 2 vols. London, W. Taylor, 1723.

WHITWORTH, CHARLES, An Account of Russia as It Was in 1710. Strawberry Hill, 1758.

WILLIAMS, BASIL, The Whig Supremacy: 1714–1760. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1962.

WILLIAMS, NEVILLE, Chronology of the Expanding World, 1492–1762. London, Cresset Press, 1969.

WILSON, FRANCESCA, Muscovy: Russia Through Foreign Eyes, 1553–1900. London, Allen & Unwin, 1970.

WITTRAM, R., Peter I, Tzar und Kaiser, 2 vols. Göttingen, 1964.

WOLF, JOHN B., Louis XIV. London, Victor Gollancz, 1968.

WOODWARD, DAVID, The Russians at Sea: A History of the Russian Navy. New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1966.

ZIEGLER, GILETTE, At the Court of Versailles: Eye-Witness Reports from the Reign of Louis XIV. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1966.

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