In the Lands of the Romanovs an Annotated Bibliography of First-Hand English-Language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613-1917)
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In the Lands of the Romanovs An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613-1917) Anthony Cross Publisher: Open Book Publishers Year of publication: 2014 Published on OpenEdition Books: 29 November 2016 Serie: OBP collection Electronic ISBN: 9782821876224 http://books.openedition.org Printed version ISBN: 9781783740574 Number of pages: xvi + 432 Electronic reference CROSS, Anthony. In the Lands of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613-1917). New edition [online]. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2014 (generated 19 décembre 2018). Available on the Internet: <http://books.openedition.org/ obp/2350>. ISBN: 9782821876224. © Open Book Publishers, 2014 Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International - CC BY 4.0 ANTHONY CROSS In the Lands of the Romanovs An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of The Russian Empire (1613-1917) OpenBook Publishers IN THE LANDS OF THE ROMANOVS In the Lands of the Romanovs An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613-1917) Anthony Cross http://www.openbookpublishers.com © 2014 Anthony Cross The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the text; to adapt it and to make commercial use of it providing that attribution is made to the author (but not in any way that suggests that he endorses you or your use of the work). 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Printed in the United Kingdom and United States by Lightning Source for Open Book Publishers Contents List of Illustrations vii Preface xiii Introduction 1 1. Reigns of the First Romanovs: Mikhail Fedorovich (1613-1645), Aleksei Mikhailovich (1645-1676), and Fedor Alekseevich (1676-1682) 63 2. Reigns of Peter I (1682-1725), including joint reign with Ivan V (1682-1696) and regency of Sophia (1686-1689), and Catherine I (1725-1727) 71 3. Reigns of Peter II (1727-1730), Anna Ivanovna (1730-1740), Ivan VI (1740-1741), and Elizabeth (1741-1762) 81 4. Reigns of Peter III (1762) and Catherine II (1762-1796) 91 5. Reign of Paul I (1796-1801) 115 6. Reign of Alexander I (1801-1825) 119 7. Reign of Nicholas I (1825-1855) 149 8. The Crimean War (28 March 1854-27 April 1856) 185 9. Reign of Alexander II (1855-1881) 227 10. Reign of Alexander III (1881-1894) 273 11. Reign of Nicholas II (1894-1917) 311 Bibliography of Bibliographies 405 Index of Authors 407 Digital Resources A free, socially enhanced version of this book is available via our website. We encourage you to help develop this collaborative edition by adding new entries and creating links to existing resources. You can access this online version via: http://www.openbookpublishers.com/isbn/9781783740574 List of Illustrations 1 Portrait of Aleksei Mikhailovich, in Samuel Collins, The Present 3 State of Russia (London: J. Winter for D. Newman, 1671). Wellcome Trust, London: http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/ obf_images/52/6c/5505fbbb60e719803d9da656fffc.jpg 2 Peter I in Russian dress during the Grand Embassy (n.d.), artist 4 unknown. Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/File:Peter_I_in_russian_dress_during_Grand_Embassy.jpg 3 Portrait of William Tooke (1820), engraving by Joseph Collyer 7 the Younger, after Martin Archer Shee. National Portrait Gallery, London. Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/File:William_Tooke.jpg 4 Portrait of Claire Clairmont (1819) by Amelia Curran. Oil on 9 canvas. Reproduced in Robert Gittings and Jo Manton, Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992). Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: Claire_Clairmont,_by_Amelia_Curran.jpg 5 St Petersburg, Senate Square, 14 December, 1825 (1825-26), by Karl 10 Kolman. Reproduced in Literaturnye mesta Rossii (Moskva: Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1987). Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia. org/wiki/File:Peterburg,_Senate_Square,_1825,_dec._14.jpg 6 Portrait of Elizabeth, Countess of Craven, later Margravine 11 of Anspach (1778), by George Romney. Oil on canvas. Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:ElizabethCraven.jpg 7 Count Francesco Algarotti (1745), by Jean-Étienne Liotard. Pastel 12 on parchment. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-%C3%89tienne_ Liotard_-_Portret_van_Graaf_Francesco_Algarotti.jpg 8 John Henniker-Major, 2nd Baron Henniker (1780s-90s), by Henry 13 Hudson, after George Romney. Mezzotint. National Portrait Gallery, London. Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/File:2ndLordHenniker.jpg viii In the Lands of the Romanovs 9 William Coxe, Russian edition of his Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden 14 and Denmark (Moscow: I. Smirnov, 1837). Wikimedia Commons: http://bit.ly/1kJGgwN 10 a Title page of the 1799 German edition of Peter Simon Pallas, 16 Bemerkungen auf einer Reise in die südlichen Statthalterschaften des Russischen Reichs in den Jahren 1793 und 1794 (Leipzig: Gottfried Martini, 1799). Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Leipzig. Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Travels_ through_the_southern_Provinces_of_the_Russian_Empire- deutsch.jpg 10 b Title page of the 1812 English edition of Peter Simon Pallas, Travels 16 through the southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794 (London: John Stockdale, 1812). Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Leipzig. Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/File:Travels_through_the_southern_Provinces_of_the_Russian_ Empire-english.jpg 11 A map of Kamtschatka engraved from the russian map by Tho. Jefferys, 17 in Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov: The history of Kamtschatka and the Kurilski Islands with the countries adjacent; Illustrated with maps and cuts. Published at Petersbourg in the Russian language by order of her Imperial Majesty and translated into English by James Grieve (Glocester: printed by R. Raikes for T. Jefferys, 1764). Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_map_of_Kamtschatka_ engraved_from_the_russian_map_by_Tho_Jefferys.jpg 12 Edmund Spencer, Travels in Circassia, Krim-tartary, &c: including 23 a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople, and round the Black Sea (London: H. Colburn, 1839). Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Circassian._ Travels_in_Circassia,_Krim-tartary,_%26c.jpg 13 British bombardment of the fortress Bomarsund (Aland 28 Islands) during the Crimean war (1854), artist unknown. Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: Bombardment_of_Bomarsund.jpg 14 Only known photograph of Mary Seacole (1805-1881), taken 31 c.1873 by Maull & Company in London, photographer unknown. Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: Seacole_photo.jpg 15 Sketch of Mary Seacole’s “British Hotel” in the Crimea (n.d.), by 31 Lady Alicia Blackwood. Wikimedia Commons: http://commons. wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blackwood_Seacole_sketch.png 16 William Simpson photographed by Roger Fenton on Cathcart 32 Hill before Sevastopol, Crimea, 1855. Adrian Lipscomb collection. Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: William_Simpson_in_the_Crimea.jpg List of Illustrations ix 17 Balaklava harbour (Crimea) [1855], photograph by Roger Fenton. 32 Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: Cossack_bay.Balaklava_1855.3a06075r.jpg 18 Portrait of Donald Mackenzie Wallace (no later than 1905), 34 photographer unknown. Wikimedia Commons: http://commons. wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Donald_Mackenzie_Wallace.jpg 19 a-b Title page and photograph of a first edition of Florence Crauford 35 Grove, The Frosty Caucasus (1875). Wikimedia Commons: http:// commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Frosty_Caucasus,_front_ page.jpg and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Frosty_ Caucasus_%281875%29.jpg 20 “The Great Game: the Afghan Emir Sher Ali Khan with his ‘friends’