Langbeschreibung
This book combines two major research fields on international relations of the State of Muscovy - the immigration, settlement, and integration of Western Europeans and Russian and European perceptions of the respective other.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
European Immigration to Muscovy in the Early Modern Era: An Introduction / From Individual Destinies to an Emergent Community: Latins in Sixteenth-Century Moscow / Back in Moscow: Repatriation of Muscovite Emigrants in the Political and Legal Culture of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Russia / Foreigners on Moscow's Housing Market: Legislation, Practices, and Administrative Handling of Foreign Residence Ownership in the Decades before Its Prohibition in 1652 / Muscovite Ideology and the "Other" in the Town: Articles of the 1649 Law Code and the Impact of Local Initiative / Foreign Mercenaries and the Russian Population, 1631-1634: Conflict and Coexistence / The Jesuit Mission and the Local Catholic Community in Smolensk: The First Years after the Treaty of Eternal Peace 1686 / Perlustration: The Opening of Foreigners' Mail in Muscovy / Foreign Engineers, the Conquest of Azov, and the Building of Taganrog / A Foreigner in Early Sixteenth-Century Muscovy: Duke Michael Glinski at the Muscovite Court / Playing Chess with Boris Godunov and Living in a Guesthouse: Attitudes to Armenian Merchants in Early Modern Muscovy / Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Family Networks in Dutch Trade with Russia, 1590-1750 / Halfway between the Kremlin and the Sloboda: The Catholic Physician Carbonarius and the Social Networks of Foreign Specialists in Muscovy / Appendix