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and collectivisation 100–1, 110

Monasteries 10, 41

Mongols 1, 6–9, 13

Monomakh crown 5, 25

Mordvin people 61, 109

Moskovskie vedomosti 76

Moscow 8, 13, 21–2, 116

Metropolitanate of 10, 15, 25

Patriarchate of 10, 26–8, 31, 33, 37

the ‘Third Rome’ 24–5, 26, 32

the ‘Second Jerusalem’ 25, 32

abolition of Patriarchate 40–1

in Napoleonic War 51

in Second World War 112

Mughal Empire 17

Municipalities 48, 73

Muscovy, Grand Principality of 8, 13–16, 129 Chapter 2

Mussorgsky 79

N

Nagorny Karabakh 122

Napoleon 50–3

Narodnaia volia 82

Narodniki 81

National policy 108–111

Nationalism, Russian 76–7, 97, 112–13, 119–20, 123–4

NATO 113, 124

Navy 38

Black Sea Fleet 56–8

Nazi-Soviet Pact 111

Nesselrode 56–7

Netherlands 37, 39, 41

Neva river 8, 39

Newspapers 75, 84, 91

Nicholas I 54–9

Nicholas II 66, 88, 96, 125

Nikon, Patriarch 30–1

Nizhny Novgorod 27

NKVD 102–3

Nobility 40, 42–3, 49–50

Charter of 47

Polish 65

German 66–8

and emancipation of serfs 71–2

and zemstvos 73, 75

and State Council 90

Nogais 17, 35

Nomenklatura 98, 103–4, 121

Novgorod 4–6, 8, 14, 18

Novy mir 118

O

Obshchestvennost 74, 93

October Manifesto 88–90

October Revolution 94–5

Odessa 46, 66

Old Belief 32–3, 35, 41, 79

Oligarchs 126–8

Oprichnina 22–3

Orenburg 35

Orthodox Church 3, 8, 10–11, 15–16, 23–6, 27–8, 40–1

schism in 30–3

clergy 33

beards and male clothing 40

Uvarov formula 54

forced conversion to 61, 65

in the Baltic 67

and Russian national identity 77

and Lev Tolstoy 79

anti-religious campaign 101, 110

and Russian nationalism 119

and legacy of Stalin 123

Ottoman Empire/Turkey 15, 17, 46, 47, 56–9, 69–70, 74

P

Pale of Settlement, Jewish 66

Palestine 57

Palmerston 57

Pasternak, Boris 107

Paul, Emperor 49

Patron-client networks 23, 28, 98–100, 127–8

Peasants 33–6, 119

in rebellion 35–6, 84, 86–7

state peasants 47

and zemstvos 73

and the economy 74, 84 (see also serfdom)

in army 74, 84

in 1905 revolution 87

in 1917 revolution 92–3

and collectivisation 100

and depopulated villages 116

and legacy of Stalin 123

Peipus, Lake 8

Perestroika 121

Persian Empire 17, 68

Peter I 33, 37–42, 49, 54–5

Peter II 42

Peter III 35, 42, 47

Pietism 53

Poland 9, 17, 27, 29, 46, 57–8, 64–6, 73, 76, 90, 101, 110

Poles 111

Police chiefs 75

political police 75

Polovtsy 5

Poltava, Battle of 38

Pomestia 14–15, 17, 18–19, 35–6

Popular Fronts 122

Pozharsky, Dmitry 27

Primary Chronicle 1, 4

Professional strata 74, 88

Prokopovich, Feofan 41

Proletkult 103

Propiska 116

Provincial governors 74–5, 127–8

Provisional Government 91–5

Prussia 46

Pugachev rebellion 35–6

Pushkin, Alexander 53

Putin, Vladimir 127–8

R

Railways 74, 84

absence of 58

Trans-Siberian 74

Rasputin, Grigory 91

Reagan, Ronald 120

Red Army 96

Red Guards 92, 95

Riazan 6

Riurikovich dynasty 4–5, 8–9

Roman Empire 24–5

Romanticism 53

Rostov 6

RSFSR 120, 123–4

Rublev, Andrei 10–11

Russian Federation 125

Russian language 110

Russian literature 53, 77–8, 110

Russians 109–11, 123, 125–6, 130

Russkaia Pravda 4

Ruthenian (west Russian or Rusin) language 9

S

St Petersburg 38, 53–4, 68, 75, 77, 85, 125

Metropolitan of 85

Soviet of 87

St Sophia Cathedral, Kiev 3

St Sophia Cathedral, Novgorod 5

Sakharov, Andrei 119

Sarai 7

Second World War 112–13

Serfdom 20, 33–6, 38, 43, 48–50, 54, 59

abolition of 71–2

Sergy of Radonezh, St 10, 13

Sevastopol 58

Seven Years War 45

Siberia 34, 60

Khanate of 60

place of exile 65

Trans-Siberian Railway 74

deportations to 111

Shamil 69

Shevchenko, Taras 65

Skomorokhi 30

Slavophiles 53, 55, 71, 81

Sobornost 11, 55

Social Democratic Party 82–4, 85–7

Socialism 53

Socialist Revolutionary Party (SRs) 82, 85–7, 94

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 118

Soviets 87

of St Petersburg/Petrograd 87, 92, 94

2^nd All-Russian Congress of 94

Sovnarkom (Council of People’s Commissars) 94

Stalin, Joseph 98–9, 102, 110, 114, 115, 121, 123

Stalingrad 112

Startsy (elders) 10

State Council 88

State Duma 88–91

Stolypin, Petr 89

Stravinsky, Igor 80

Sufi brotherhoods 69

Suzdal 1, 6

Sweden 8, 27, 40–2, 46

T

Table of Ranks 40

Tashkent 63

Tatars 17–19, 23, 36, 61

Taxation 23, 34, 126, 127

poll tax 38, 44, 49, 77–8

of Central Asian peoples 63

Teutonic Knights 8, 17

Time of Troubles 26–8, 30

Timur (Tamerlane) 13

Tolstoy, Lev 78–9

Totleben, General 58

Trepov, General 73

Trotsky, Lev 87, 96, 102–3

Tsar, title of 21–3, 28, 41

discrediting of 86, 96

powers of 88

Turkey, see Ottoman Empire

Turkestan 64

Tvardovsky, Alexander 118

Tver 9

U

Udmurt people 61

Uezdy 47–8

Ukraine 2, 64–5

language of 9, 64–5, 109, 125

Hetmanate of 29, 31, 65

church of 31, 64–5

and Gogol 77

holodomor 101

Ukrainians 111

Ulus 7, 13

Uniate (Greek Catholic) Church 64–5

Union of Russian People 66, 77

Urals 34, 36

Uvarov, Count 54

USA 43, 115

V

Valuev 73

Varangians 1, 2

Vasilii III 18

Veche 2, 14

Vikings, see Varangians

Village commune, see mir

Vladimir, Great Prince of Kiev 3, 4

Vladimir Monomakh 5, 25

his Exhortation 6

Vladimir, town of 6

Voevody 28

Volga river 7, 27, 112

region 61, 109

Volost 72, 75

Voltaire 45

Volynia 9

Votchiny 17

W

Warsaw 46

Warsaw Pact 113, 121

Welfare 115–16