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Nation and Memory in Eastern Europe. Lecture 3 Russian History I Week 3. Outline The Kievan Rus and Christianisation The “Mongolian yoke“ and the rise of Moscow The imperial Byzantine Heritage 4. Expansion and Westernization between the 16th and 18th centuries 5. Conclusion. 1000. 1000. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Nation and Memory in Eastern Europe
Lecture 3Russian History I
Week 3
Outline
1.The Kievan Rus and Christianisation2.The “Mongolian yoke“ and the rise of Moscow3.The imperial Byzantine Heritage4. Expansion and Westernization between the 16th
and 18th centuries5. Conclusion
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Influences
• The Principality of Kiev
Ca. 862 Rurik, a semi-legendary Scandinavian warrior, establishes Rus principality
862 Oleg moves capital to Kiev
988-9 Christianisation: Grand Prince Vladimir I becomes orthodox
1169 Prince Andri Bogolubski moves capital to Vladimir, near Moscow
1200
Outline
1.The Kievan Rus and Christianisation2.The “Mongolian yoke“ and the rise of Moscow3.The imperial Byzantine Heritage4. Expansion and Westernization between the 16th
and 18th centuries5. Conclusion
Influences
• The Principality of Kiev• Mongolian heritage – for 200 years part
of a Mongolian empire (1240 – middle of the 15th c.)
1300
Influences
• Mongolian heritage – for 200 years part of a Mongolian empire (1240 – middle of the 15th c.)
1237-1240
The Mongols (Tatars) under Batu Khan, invade and devastate Rus, Aleksander Nevsky defeats Sweden and – later - Teutonic Order
Ca. 1271
Moscow becomes capital of Grand Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal
1380 Dmitri Donskoi defeats Tatars, takes title Grand Prince of Moscow
1400
Aleksander Nevsky during the Battle of Lake Peipus or Battle of the Ice, 1242, scene from Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Eisenstein, 1938
Battle of Kulikovo, 1380, Painting 1850
Geography
• Forests in Moscovian heartland
• Peripheral location
• Vast Russian plain
• Dense and viable network of rivers
• Spring and autumn: mud, time of immobility
Outline
1.The Kievan Rus and Christianisation2.The “Mongolian yoke“ and the rise of Moscow3.The imperial Byzantine Heritage4. Expansion and Westernization between the 16th
and 18th centuries5. Conclusion
1500
Influences
• Byzantine heritage – Orthodox faith – Third Rome
1462-1505 Ivan III (the Great) begins annexing surrounding areas, conquers Republic of Novgorod, foundations of autocratic state, religious leaders proclaim Moscow the Third Rome (after Union of Florence in 1439, the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the marriage with Zoe, the niece of the last Byzantine Emperor, in 1472)
1533 Ivan IV (the Terrible) calls himself tsar, expands autocracy, begins annexation of Siberia, Wars against Sveden and Poland, Conquest of Tatar principalities Kazan and Astrachan
1589 Russian Orthodox Church now completely independent from other Orthodox Churches
Church Slavonic, not Greek: church language, 'holy language', holy books translated into Church Slavonic
Ivan IV “the Terrible”Cathedral of St. Basil, Moscow
The Gathering of the Lands of the Golden Horde
• After end of Mongolian Empire and defeat of successors – power vacuum in the East, filled by Moscow
• Conquest of Kazan and Astrachan 1555
• Conquest of Kazakh steppe
• Colonization of Siberia
• Subjugation of Central Asia
1600
Moscow and the idea of the Third Rome
• After fall of Constantinople 1453 Moscow princes see themselves as legitimate heirs of orthodox emperor
• 17th – 19th centuries: several wars against Ottoman Empire
• Access to the Black Sea• Conquest of Crimea• Caucasus and Transcaucasus with orthodox
Georgian nation• Russian Emperor: Protector of Orthodox
population in Ottoman Empire
Autocracy
• Greek origin: self-ruler (samoderzhets)• Form of government• Unlimited power held by one individual• Used by Byzantine Emperor• Transferred with idea of Third Rome to Moscow
Measures:• Ivan IV: Oprichnina 1564 ff: persecution of old nobility with help of 'oprichniki'• Sack of Novgorod in 1570
Outline
1.The Kievan Rus and Christianisation2.The “Mongolian yoke“ and the rise of Moscow3.The imperial Byzantine Heritage4. Expansion and Westernization between the 16th
and 18th centuries5. Conclusion
Influences
• Influences of Western and Central Europe (Polish, German, Swedish, French) – 17th c. – 20th c.
1605-1613
Times of Trouble, Polish invasion
1613 Michael Romanov becomes tsar, Romanov Dynasty
1667 Raskol – Split of Orthodox Church in Official Church and Old Believers
Andrey Ryabushkin, Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Holding Council with the Boyars in his Royal Chamber, 1893
The Gathering of the Lands of the Rus
• Conquest of Novgorod
• Several wars against the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth
• 1654 Treaty of Pereyaslav with Cossack Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky
• 1667 Peace Treaty of Andrusovo, West Bank Ukraine and Eastern part of Belarus join Russian Empire
• 1772 First Partition of Poland, Right Bank Ukraine and Western part of Belarus
• Russian Emperor: Protector of Orthodox population in Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth
• 1793/95 Second and Third Partition of Poland, eastern half of Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth goes to Russian Empire
Peter the Great, portrait by Paul Delaroche
Westernisation I
• 1682/1689-1725 Peter I. (the Great)• 1697 “Grand Embassy” to Western Europe• Government and administrative reforms – more effective
administration: Swedish, Dutch, German example• Land tax and household tax replaced by capitation:
payable also by serfs• Reform of the Russian Orthodox Church: Patriarch of
Moscow replaced by Holy Synod (10 clergymen)• 1721 Title “Emperor”• 1722 Introduction of a new order of precedence: the Table
of ranks: privileges of nobility based on state service
1700
Access to the Baltic Sea
• Great Northern War against Sweden 1699-1721
• Conquest of Ingermanland
• 1703 Foundation of St.Petersburg
• Integration of Estonia and Livonia 1721
• 1809 Finland becomes part of the Russian Empire
Skyline of St. Petersburg in the 19th c.
Battle of Poltava, 1709: Russia vs. Sweden and Cossack Allies (Mazepa)
Beginning of end of Cossack autonomy
Catherine the GreatPortrait by Dmitry Levitsky
Westernisation II
• 1761 under Peter III.: Liberty of nobility: no longer obliged to serve in the military or civil service
• 1762-1796 Catherine II. (the Great): Westernisation continues
• Enlightened Absolutism: administrative reforms, attempt to organise society in well defined social groups – estates
• Charter to the Nobility (1785) and Charter to the Towns
• 1790 Aleksandr N. Radishchev publishes “Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow”: attack on serfdom and autocracy
1800
Outline
1.The Kievan Rus and Christianisation2.The “Mongolian yoke“ and the rise of Moscow3.The imperial Byzantine Heritage4. Expansion and Westernization between the 16th
and 18th centuries5. Conclusion
Influences
• Byzantine heritage – Orthodox faith – Third Rome
• Mongolian heritage – for 200 years part of a Mongolian empire (1240 – middle of the 15th c.)
• Influences of Western and Central Europe (Polish, German, Swedish, French) – 17th c. – 20th c.
Key questions
• Autocratic tradition – no estates: weakness of society
• Nobility vs. Peasants (serfs)• Weak middle class• 'Backwardness'• Multiethnic empire• What is Russia? What is Russia's role in the
world?• Relationship to Europe, to Asia