The results of study of the acts and office work of the central government system of Russia in the 16th–17th centuries are presented. It is shown that, due to the large territory, multiethnicity, and polyconfessionalism of Russia, a strong centralized power is an inevitable factor of its ...
In the mid-16th century, “Russia” or “Russian Tsardom” (Rossiiskoe tsarstvo) referred to all the lands that then constituted the centralized state headed by Moscow. Later, the term “Russian” (rossiiskii) came to refer to subjects of the state; the term “Russians” (russkie) was ...
The development of crafts and trade stimulated population growth and territorial expansion. In the 16th century Moscow, essentially coinciding with the area within the present Sadovoe Ring, was larger than London, Prague, and other European cities. At the beginning of the 17th century the ...
Saratov is a nice city to explore the cozy Russian province. It was founded in the 16th century and was developed as a merchant city - as a result, the downtown still has old, wooden houses with carved windows, tsarist era mansions, as well as some factories, relics of Soviet industrial...
A page from the Primary Chronicle or The Tale of Bygone Years: This rare written document was created in the 12th century and provides the most promising clues as to the arrival of Rurik in Ladoga. The debate also continues as to how Rurik came to control the Novgorod region. However, som...
摘要: from the history of russian cartography in the 16th and 17th centuries: material for a biographical dictionary of 18th century russian land surveyors and for a history of geodetic education in russia Without abstract.DOI: 10.3138/P277-6G30-871W-Q271 年份: 1975 ...
In the Polish Kingdom in the 16th century, local military commanders and administrators were known as "hetmans." The title was also used for the supreme military commander both in Poland and in Lithuania. My source for the Hetmans, for the subsequent Republic during the Russian Revolution, ...
In the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 16th century Prince Andrew Kurbsky dynasty Rurikovich was written in Polish in documents under the surname Krupski Coat of arms Levart (Lew II).Kurbsky belonged to a family of Rurikid princes, which got its name from the town of Kurba near Yaroslavl...
Within its walls are the Annunciation Cathedral, the Transfiguration Monastery, other orthodox buildings, and the Qol-Şärif mosque, a main mosque of Tatarstan. It was destroyed in the 16th century when Kazan was invaded by the troops of Ivan the Terrible, and restored only on the 1000th ...
1. CanadaCanada, second largest country in the world in area (after Russia), occupying roughly the northern two-fifths of the continent of North America.Despite Canada’s great size, it is one of the world’s most sparsely populated countries. This fact, coupled with the grandeur of the la...