Moderniser of Russia : Andrei Vinius, 1641-1716
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1137323663
ISBN-13
9781137323668
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 27th, 2013
Print length
271 Pages
Weight
470 grams
Dimensions
22.40 x 13.80 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
European historyEarly modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700HistoryEuropean history
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This book investigates Russia's transformation into a European Power by way of the activities of the tsarist translator and official Andrei Vinius, who became an important advisor to Peter the Great. Vinius emerges as an influential conduit of Western culture and technology, who played a key role in transforming Muscovy into Russia.
Andrei Vinius''s life and work attest to the importance of career bureaucrats in ushering Muscovy to a seat at the table of Europe''s Great Powers in the Early Modern Age. Kees Boterbloem''s study goes further and shows how some phenomena that we associate with mature capitalist economies and their impact on the "developing world" originate earlier than the Industrial Revolution. As Siberian overlord around 1700, Vinius helped Russia to exchange her previous guise as colony for that of coloniser in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Altogether, this first English-language biography of Vinius provides a deeper insight into the beginnings of Russia as a Great Power, and of the nature of cross-cultural contacts in the Early Modern World.
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