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Informationen zum Autor By Kees Boterbloem Klappentext This study examines the close cultural, economic, and military relationship between the Russian Empire and the Netherlands in the early modern period. The author argues that the Netherlands had an outsized impact on Russia's early development into a powerful state. Zusammenfassung This study examines the close cultural, economic, and military relationship between the Russian Empire and the Netherlands in the early modern period. The author argues that the Netherlands had an outsized impact on Russia's early development into a powerful state. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Jordan E. Kurland, 1928-2016, Stuart M. Kurland Introduction Chapter 1: The Prehistory of Dutch-Russian Relations; the English Pioneers Chapter 2: Flemish Trailblazers Chapter 3: New States on Europe's Fringe Chapter 4: De Vogelaer and Van Klenck Chapter 5: The Russian and Dutch Other Chapter 6: Diplomatic Ties Chapter 7: Isaac Massa Chapter 8: Business Opportunities Chapter 9: Guns and Grain Chapter 10: Medicine Chapter 11: Dutch Entrepreneurs Chapter 12: Pivot: Boreel's Embassy Chapter 13: Dutch Mercenaries in the Tsar's Service Chapter 14: The Western Sloboda Chapter 15: The New Commercial Statute of 1667 Chapter 16: Envoys Chapter 17: The Oryol Chapter 18: Becoming Russian? Chapter 19: Koenraad van Klenck's Embassy Chapter 20: The Interregnum, 1676-1689 Chapter 21: Peter the Great Chapter 22: Patrick Gordon and François Lefort Chapter 23: Russians in the Republic Chapter 24: A Final Blaze of Business: Lups and Brants Chapter 25: Cornelis Cruys and the Russian Exchange Students Chapter 26: An Era Closes: The Eighteenth Century
A propos de l'auteur
Kees Boterbloem is Professor of History at the University of South Florida, USA. He is the author of nine books on Russian, Soviet and World History, including A History of Russia and Its Empire (2nd edition, 2018), The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896-1948 (2004) and Life and Death under Stalin (1999). He was, from 2008 to 2018, editor of the journal The Historian.
