Paul Bushkovitch

Curriculum Vitae

Department of History Home address: Yale University 117 Glen Parkway New Haven, CT USA 06520 Hamden, CT 06517 (203) 432-1366 (203) 288-8784, Fax: (203) 287-1040 Email: [email protected]

Born: May 22, 1948 (St. Louis, Missouri)

Education: B.A. 1970 Harvard University -magna cum laude Ph.D. 1975 Columbia University 1973-1974 Moscow State University (see below)

Academic Positions: 1975 Instructor, Columbia University 1975-1980 Assistant Professor, Yale University 1980-1992 Associate Professor, Yale University Fall, 1981 Visiting Associate Professor, Columbia University 1992- Professor of History, Yale University

Awards and Honors:

Lewis Prize 1994, American Philosophical Society, for England and the North (jointly with Maija Jansson).

Festschrift: Religion and Identity in Russia and the Soviet Union, ed. Nikolaos Chrissidis, Cathy Potter, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, and Jennifer Spock, Bloomington, Indiana, Slavic, 2011.

Editorial Boards:

Cahiers du monde russe, Paris, 2000-present.

Patrick Gordon Diary Project, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2009-present.

Copublisher and Advisor, “Russia and the Russian Court from the Viewpoint of European Diplomats,” German Historical Institute, Moscow, 2011- present.

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Letters and Papers of Peter the Great, Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents, Moscow, 2012.

Dissertation: "The Merchant Class of Moscow 1580-1650," Columbia University, 1975.

Research in Progress

1. Succession to the Throne and the Problem of Absolutism in Russia 1598-1722 (book).

2. The Image of the Monarch in Russia, 900-1740 (book).

Publications:

Books:

A Concise History of Russia, Cambridge-New York, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Peter the Great: the Struggle for Power 1671-1725, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001. Italian translation: Lucio Angelini, trans., Pietro il Grande: La lotta per il potere (1671-1725), Salerno Editrice, 2003. Russian translation: N.L. Luzhetskaia, trans., Петр Великий: борьба за власть (1671-1725), St. Petersburg, Dmitrii Bulanin, 2008.

Peter the Great (Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 2001.

Religion and Society in Russia: the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (New York, Oxford University Press, 1992).

The Merchants of Moscow 1580-1650 (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1980).

Edited Works:

Maija Jansson, N. M. Rogozhin, and Paul Bushkovitch, editors and translator, England and the North: The Russian Embassy of 1613-1614. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 210, Philadelphia, 1994).

Ivo Banac and Paul Bushkovitch, eds., The Nobility in Russia and East Europe, Yale Russian and East European Publications (collected articles with a joint preface by the editors), New Haven, 1983.

Book Chapters: 3

1. “Russia,” in Kimberly Kagan, ed., The Imperial Moment, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2010, 109-140.

2. “Peter the Great and the Northern War,” In D.C. B. Lieven, ed., Cambridge History of Russia.vol. 2, Cambridge, 2006, 489-503.

3. “The Moscow Kremlin and its History,” in Olga Dmitrieva and Natalya Abramova, eds, Britannia and Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars, New Haven, 2006, 218-227.

3. "The Romanov Transformation 1613-1725," in Frederick Kagan et al. The Military History of Tsarist Russia, New York, Palgrave, 2001, 31-46.

Articles:

1. “Poltava’s Consquences: Local Autonomy in the Russian Empire in the Reign of Peter the Great,” in Serhii Plokhy ed., Poltava 1709: The Battle and the Myth (Harvard Ukrainian Studies 31, no. 1-4, 2009-2010) 135-158. 2. “Political Ideology in the Reign of Peter I: Feofan Prokopovich, Succession to the Throne and the West,” in: ГИИМ: Доклады по истории 18 и 19 вв. – DHI Moskau: Vorträge zum 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: URL: http://www.perspectivia.net/content/publikationen/vortraege- moskau/bushkovitch_ideology Dokument zuletzt verändert am: Apr 11, 2012 10:44 AM Zugriff vom: Apr 11, 2012. 3. “Orthodoxy and Islam in Russia 988-1725,” in Ludwig Steindorff, ed., Religion und Integration im Moskauer Russland: Konzepte und Praktiken, Potentiale und Grenzen, Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 76, Wiesbaden, 2010, 117-144. 4. “Patrick Gordon and Russian Court Politics,” Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies 3 (Spring, 2010), no. 2, 1-18. 5. “Fatherland in Russian Culture 15-17th Centuries”, Journal of Ukrainian Studies 33-34 (2008- 2009), Frank Sysyn Festschrift edd. Olga Andriewsky, Zenon E. Kohut, Serhii Plokhy, and Larry Wolff, 93-103. 6. “The Vasiliologion of Nikolai Spafarii Milescu,” Russian History 36 (2009) No. 1, Festschrift for Richard Hellie Part 4, edd. Lawrence N. Langer, Peter Brown, 1-15. 7. “The Roman Empire in the Era of Peter the Great,” in Chester S. L. Dunning, Russell E. Martin, and Daniel Rowland, eds., Rude and Barbarous Kingdom Revisited: Essays in Russian History and Culture in Honor of Robert O. Crummey, Bloomington, Indiana, 2008, 155-172. 8. ”Шведские источники о России 1624-1626 гг.”, Архив русской истории, вып. 8, 2007, 359-381. 9. “Ему служат мошенники и предатели,” Родина 11 (2007), 49-57. 10. “The Clergy at the Russian Court 1689-1796,” in Michael Schaich, ed., Monarchy and Religion: the Transformation of Royal Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Oxford, 2007, 105-128. 11. "A Kyivan Trebnik among Moscow Musketeers", Harvard Ukrainian Studies vol. 28, no. 1- 4, 2006, 397-404. 4

12. “Popular Religion in the Time of Peter the Great,” in John-Paul Himka and Andriy Z1arnyuk, eds.,Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine, Toronto, 2006, 146-164. 13. “Россия и Украинское гетманство в 1653-1725 годах,” Belorussiia i Ukraina: Istoriia i kul’tura. Ezhegodnik 2004, Moscow, 2005, 67-92. 14. “Russian Boyars and the Ukrainian Hetmanate,” Journal of Ukrainian Studies, vol. 29 (1/2), Summer-Winter 2004, 47-63. 15. “The Far East in the Eyes of the Russian Intelligentsia,” in John W. Steinberg, Bruce W. Menning, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David Wolff, Shinji Yokote, The Russo- Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero, Leiden-Boston, 2005, 349-364. 16. “Princes Cherkasskii or Circassian Murzas; the Kabardians in the Russian Boyar Elite 1560- 1700,” Cahiers du monde russe 45 (janvier juin 2004) pts 1-2, 9-30. 17. “Peter and the Seventeenth Century,” in Jarmo Kotilaine and Marshall Poe, eds., Modernizing Muscovy: Reform and Social Change in Seventeenth-century Russia, London and New York, 2004, 461-476. 18. "The Politics of Command in the Army of Peter the Great," in Bruce W. Menning, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, ed., Reforming the Tsar’s Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution, Cambridge-Washington, DC, 2004, 253- 272. 19. “The Selection and Deposition of the Metropolitan and Patriarch of the Orthodox Church in Russia 1448-1619,” in Marek Derwich and M. V. Dmitriev, eds., Être catholique – être orthodoxe – être protestant: confessions et identities culturelles en Europe médiévale et moderne, Opera ad historiam monasticam spectantia II, 2, Wrocław, 2003, 123-150. 20. “Православная церковь и русское национальное самосознание ХV1-ХV11 вв. [The Orthodox Church and Russian National Consciousness in the 16-17th Centuries],” Ab Imperio 3 (2003), 101-118. 21. "The Court of Tsar Michael in Swedish Sources," Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 58 (2001), 235-242. 22. "Cultural Change among the Russian Boyars 1650-1680 New Sources and Old Problems," Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 56 (2000), 91-112. 23. “Мне отмщение: новый взгляд на дело царевича Алексея [Vengeance is mine: A new view of the case of tsarevich Aleksei],” Rodina 9 (1999), 43-47. 24. "Power and the Historian: the Case of Tsarevich Aleksei 1716-1718 and N. G. Ustrialov 1845-1859." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 141, no. 2 (June 1997), 177- 212. 25. "Aristocratic Faction and the Opposition to Peter the Great: the 1690's." Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 50 (Berlin, 1995), 80-120. 26. "The Life of Saint Filipp: Tsar and Metropolitan in the Late Sixteenth Century," in Michael S. Flier and Daniel Rowland, eds., Medieval Russian Culture, vol. 2, California Slavic Studies XIX, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1994, 29-46. 27. "Максим Грек – поэт-гипербореец [Maksim the Greek as Hyperborean poet]," Trudy otdela drevnerusskoi literatury 47 (St. Petersburg, 1993), 215-228. [Edition of two previously unknown Greek originals of two poetic tracts by Maximos the Greek]. 28. "Orthodoxy and Old Rus' in the Thought of S. P. Shevyrev," in Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 46 (Berlin 1992), 203-220. 5

29. "The Ukraine in Russian Culture 1790-1860: The Evidence of the Journals," Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 39 (1991), H. 3, 339-363. 30. "The Epiphany Ceremony of the Russian Court in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," Russian Review 49, no. 1 (January, 1990), 1-17. 31. "V.O. Kliuchevskii as Historian of Religion and the Church," Canadian-American Slavic Studies 20, nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1986), 357-366. 32. "Юрай Крижанич и русское старообрядчество [Juraj Križanić and Russian Old Belief]," in Znanstveni skup u povodu 300. obljetnice smrti Jurja Krizanića (1683-1983): Zbornik radova pt. 2, Zagreb, 1986, 243-254. 33. "The Formation of National Consciousness in Early Modern Russia," in Concepts of Nationhood in Early Modern Eastern Europe, Harvard Ukrainian Studies 10, no. 3/4, December, 1986, 355-376. 34. "The Limits of Hesychasm: Some Notes on Monastic Spirituality in Russia 1350-1500", Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 38 (Berlin, 1986), 97-109. 35. "Two Unknown Greek Manuscripts of Maxim the Greek," Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 32 (1984), H. 4, 559-561. 36. "Towns and Castles in Kiev Rus'," Russian History 7 (1980), pt. 3, 251-264. 37. "Towns, Trade and Artisans in Seventeenth Century Russia: the View from Eastern Europe," Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 27 (Berlin, 1980), 215-232. 38. "Taxation, Tax-farming and Merchants in Sixteenth Century Russia," Slavic Review 37 (September, 1978), no. 3, 381-398. 39. "Urban Ideology in Medieval Novgorod: an Iconographic Approach," Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique 16 (1975), pt. 1, 19-26. 40. "Rus' in the Ethnic Nomenclature of the Povest' vremennykh let," Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique 12 (1971), pt. 3, 296-306.

Review Essays

1. P. V. Sedov, Zakat Moskovskogo tsarstva: Tsarskii dvor kontsa XVII veka,; Ol’ga Novokhatko, Razriad v 185 godu ;I. A. Buseva-Dvydova, Kul’tura i iskusstvo v epokhu peremen: Rossiia semnadtsago stoletiia ; L. I. Sazonova, Literaturnaia kul’tura Rossii: Rannee Novoe vremia, Kritika 11, 1 (2010). 161-172. 2.“Zhitie mitropolita Filippa: Issledovanie i teksty, and: Sviataia Rus': Agiografiia, istoriia, ierarkhiia,” Kritika 9, 2 (Spring 2008), 449-456. 3. “ The Monarch and the State in 18th Century Russia.” Kritika 4, 4 (Fall, 2003), 931-41. 4. "A New Look at Kiev Rus'" (review article), Canadian-American Slavic Studies 10 (fall 1976), pt. 3, 426-430. 5. "Polish Urban History" (review article), Polish Review 17 (1973), p. 3, 86-98.

Reviews (selected):

1. Bri an Davi es, State Power and Community in Early Modern Russia: The Case of Kozlov, 1635–1649. Basi ngstoke, UK , 2004; and Ol ´ga K oshel eva, Liudi Sankt-Peterburgskogo ostrova petrovskogo vremeni. Moscow, 2004; Kritika 7, 3 (Summer 2006): 651–55. 6

2. Giovanna Siedina, ed. Mazepa e il suo tempo: Storia, cultura, società / Mazepa and His Time: History, Culture, Society. Allessandria: Edizioni dell’ Orso, 2004. Journal of Ukrainian Studies 33-34 (2008-2009), 516-518. 3. N. V. Sinitsyna, Tretii Rim, Moscow, 1998, Kritika, 1(2) (Spring, 2000), 391-399. 4. Gasparov, Boris, and Raevsky-Hughes, Olga eds., Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, vol. 1, Slavic Cultures in the Middle Ages, California Slavic Studies 16, Russian Review 54/2 (April 1995), 288-289. 5. Stephen Velychenko, National History as Cultural Process, Edmonton, 1992, American Historical Review (April, 1995), 552-553. 6. Istochniki po istorii russkogo obshestvennogo soznania perioda feodalizma, Novosibirsk, 1986, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 36 (1988), H. 4, 626. 7. V. V. Doroshenko, Torgovlia i kupechestvo Rigi v XVII veke, American Historical Review 92, no. 5 (December, 1987), 1226. 8. Philip Longworth, Alexis, Tsar of all the Russias, Harvard Ukrainian Studies 10, no. 1/2 (June, 1986), 257-258. 9. Ekkehard Klug, Das Fürstentum Tver (1247-1485): Aufstieg, Selbstbehauptung und Niedergang, Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 37 (1985), Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 35 (1987), H. 2, 253-254. 10. Richard Hellie, Slavery in Russia 1450-1725, International Labor and Working Class History 31 (Spring, 1987), 138-140. 11. "The Kiev Mohyla Academy", A Special Issue Commemorating the 350th Anniversary of its Founding (1632), Harvard Ukrainian Studies 8, no 1/2 (June 1984), Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, 2, 1986, 333-334. 12. Henryk Paszkiewicz, The Rise of Moscow's Power, International History Review, 8, no. 3 (August, 1986), 450-451. 13. Gerhard Podskalsky, Christentum und theologische Literatur in der Kiever Rus' (988-1237), Harvard Ukrainian Studies IX, no. 1/2 (June 1985), 208-209. 14. John Meyendorff, Byzantium and the Rise of Russia, Russian Review 41 (April, 1982), no. 2, 198-199. 15. Handbuch der Geschichte Russlands, vol. 1, 3-5, Russian History 8 (1981), pt. 3, 413-414. 16. Samuel H. Baron, Muscovite Russia: Collected Essays, Russian Review 40 (October, 1981), no. 4, 442. 17. Hugh F. Graham, trans., The Moscovia of Antonio Possevino, S.J., Russian History 6 (1979) pt. 1, 115. 18. A. L. Shapiro, Problemy sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoi istorii Rusi XIV-XVI vv., Russian Review 38 (October, 1979), no. 4, 474-475. 19. Walenty Rozdzieski, Officina Ferraria, Slavic Review 37 (June, 1978) 321-322. 20. Hartmut Rüss, Adel und Adelsopposition im Moskauer Staat, and Wolfgang Knackstedt, Moskau: Studien zur Geschichte einer mittelalterlichen Stadt, Russian History 4 (1977), pt. 1, 66-68. 21. H.-J. Torke, Die Staatsbedingte Gesellschaft im Moskauer Reich, Russian History 3, pt. 2 (1976), 247-248.

Grants: 7

Participant US-USSR Cultural Exchange at Moscow State University, 1973-1974 Participant, IREX Exchange at Moscow State University, 1979-1980 (Fulbright and ACLS grants). NEH Summer Grant 1981 A. Whitney Griswold research grant, 1976, 1983, 1985, 1987. ACLS travel grant (Krizanic Conference, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, August, 1983) Yale Center for International and Area Studies research grant 1984, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1992. Enders Fund research grant, 1987. American Philosophical Society research grant 1988. IREX research grant, USSR/Russia, fall, 1989, 1993, 1997. Scandinavian-American Foundation, 1992. DAAD, Berlin and Dresden, 1995 Carnegie Professor to the Scottish Universities, fall 2005 (Aberdeen)

Invited Lectures:

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Russian History Group, October, 2012 (Succession and Absolutism in Russia)

Deutsches Historisches Institut, Moscow, December, 2010 (Feofan Prokopovich and Absolutism).

Istituto Italiano per gli studi filosofici, Naples (2002, three lectures on Peter the Great).

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (2003, four lectures on Peter the Great).

Vassar College, (November, 2003. “Peter and His City” for art exhibition, “Art from St. Petersburg).

Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris 1999 (four lectures on Peter the Great).

Conferences, Papers:

Paper, "Merchants and Trade in Seventeenth Century Russia," American Historical Association, Dallas, December, 1977 Paper, "The History of the Russian City in the East European Context," Fourth Conference on Old Russian History, Berlin, June 1978 (published). Paper, "Towns and Castles in Kievan Rus'," AAASS, October, 1978 (published). 8

Paper, "Current Soviet Interpretations of Russian History in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," Conference on Recent Developments in Soviet Social Sciences and Humanities, Stanford University, June, 1979 Paper, "The Translation of Byzantine Monasticism," AAASS, October, 1981 Paper, "Iurai Krizhanich i russkoe staroobriadchestvo (Juraj Krizanić and Russian Old Belief), conference on the life and work of Juraj Krizanić, Yugoslav Academy of Sciences, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, September, 1983. Paper, "The Limits of Hesychasm: Some Notes on Monastic Spirituality in Russia 1350-1500," Fifth Conference on Old Russian History, Klagenfurt, Austria, August, 1984 Paper, "The Ukraine in Russian Culture, 1800-1855," Conference on Ukrainian-Russian Literary Relations, November, 1985. Paper, "Orthodoxy and Old Rus' in the Thought of S. P. Shevyrev," Sixth Conference on Old Russian History, New Haven, Connecticut, April, 1988. Paper, "The Epiphany Ceremony in the Russian Court in the Sixteenth Century," AAASS Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, November, 1988. Paper, "The Life of Metropolitan Filipp," Conference on History and Literature of Old Russia, UCLA, 1990. Paper, "Aristocratic Faction and Opposition to Peter the Great." Seventh Conference on Old Russian History, Berlin, 1992. Paper, “The Politics of Command in Peter’s Army,” Conference on “Reforming the Tsar’s Army,” Smithsonian Institution, Oct. 31-Nov. 1-1997. Paper, “Cultural Change among the Russian Boyars 1655-1680” Berlin Conference on Old Russian History, 1998. Paper, “Aristocratic Opposition to Peter the Great”, Conference “Historical Science on the Eve of the Third Millenium,” Tiumen’, Russia, April 27-28, 2000. Smithsonian Institution, One-Day Seminar on Peter the Great, 2002. Commentator, Memory and Russian History, European University of ST. Petersburg, 2007. Paper, “Islam and Orthodoxy in Russia to 1700” Conference on Old Russian History, Kiel, Germany, May, 2008. Paper, “New Texts and New Words: Russian Political Culture at the End of the Seventeenth Century,” AAASS Convention, Philadelphia, November 20-23, 2008. Paper, “The Gordon Diary and Russian Court Politics,” Conference on Patrick Gordon, Aberdeen Scotland, May 2009. Paper, “Vizantiiskie vasilevsy na stenakh kremlevskogo dvortsa,” Conference, Elita, vlast’i obshchestva v Rossii XV-XIX vv., Kremlin Museum/Russian Academy of Sciences, June, 2009. Paper, Poltava in European Context, Poltava conference, HURI, Nov. 10-11, 2009. Participant, Poltava Roundtable, AAASS Convention, Boston, Nov. 12, 2009. Paper: “Was Russia an Elective Monarchy?,” VIII ICCEES World Congress in Stockholm, Sweden, July 2010. Commentator, “What was the Soviet Union?” Conference, Wesleyan University, Oct. 20-21, 2011.

Administration: 9

Director of Senior Essay Program, History Department, 1976-1978 Director of Undergraduate Studies, History Department, 1978-1979 History Departmental Advisor to Undergraduate Majors, Davenport College, 1977-1979, 1980-1987. Director of Graduate Studies, Soviet and East European Studies Program, 1981-1983, 1984-1985, 1990-1991, 2001-2005 Acting Chairman, Soviet and East European Studies Program, 1983-1984, 1992. Chairman, Soviet and East European Studies Department, 1986-1989. Chairman, History Department, Yale University, 1992-1996. Director, Senior Essay Program, History Department, 2006-2008.

University Committees and Service:

Senior Essay Prize Committee, spring 1976 Course Committee, History Department, 1976-1979 Committee on the Undergraduate Program, 1976-1979 History Department Advisory Commitee 1980-1981 History Department Graduate Curriculum Commitee, 1983-1984 Member, Council on Russian/Soviet and East European Studies, 1977-1979, 1980-present Yale-Moscow University Exchange Committee 1988-1992 Fellow of Davenport College, 1976-present Davenport College Seminar Commitee 1976-1977 Honorary Degrees Committee, 1978-1979 Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty, 1980-1984 Committee on Honors and Academic Standards, fall, 1985, 1986-1988 Course of Study Committee, Yale College, 1988, 2009-2011 History Department Mentoring Committee 2007-2008, 2009-2010 Chair, Course of Study Committee, Yale College, 2012

Professional service.

ACLS, reader for grant applications in history from the Ukraine , 2000-2003

Teaching:

Columbia: History of Early Modern Europe (undergraduate), Seminar in Russian History to 1725 (graduate).

Yale: undergraduate: 10

Regularly offered: History of Russia to 1796 (lecture), The Monarch and the State in Russia to 1825 (junior seminar); Russia and the Steppe 1200-1917 (junior seminar), Empire and Foreign Policy in Russia to 1917 (lecture). Occasionally offered: History of Russia since 1796 (lecture), Muscovite Russia (junior seminar), Industrialization and Urbanization in Russia to 1917 (junior seminar), The Russian Revolution (junior seminar), Social History of the USSR 1917-1953 (junior seminar), Slavic Civilization, Middle Ages to the Present (lecture), Relations of the European Powers 1492-1721 (lecture). (Directed Studies): History of Western Political Thought from the Greeks to the Twentieth Century. graduate: Regular: History of Russia to 1725 (readings/research), Eighteenth century Russia (readings), Orthodoxy and Society in the Byzantine Empire and Russia (readings). Occasional: Social-Economic History of the Soviet Union 1917-1953 (readings), Relations of the European Powers 1550-1650, The Ukraine in the Nineteenth Century (readings), Russian Intellectual and Cultural History 1750-1850 (readings).

Media:

Interview on Persona grata, (11/10/2008) at 9:50 PM Eastern Time at NTV-America.

Languages: Russian, French, German, Italian, Latin, Greek (ancient and modern), Swedish, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian, Danish, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Finnish, Old Russian, Old Slavic.