Encompasses the entire life of Ivan the Terrible and views him in the context of his own time. Notorious for a policy of unrestrained terror - and for killing his own son - his reign... Læs mere
This collection of essays on 18th-century Russia challenges the conventional view of imperial Russia as a semi-barbaric outsider on the periphery of continental Europe. The book also explores the way Russia absorbed and participated in the European Enlightenment.