DEPARTMENT OF SLAVONIC STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF SLAVONIC STUDIES
PART IB and PART II: PAPER RU4
Russian Literature, History, and Culture, from 1300 to 1676
Course Adviser: Dr J.R. Howlett
READING LIST
Almost all the books and articles are in English – should you wish to do more of your
secondary reading in Russian, please let me know.
* means an article is available online via JSTOR
1. History: surveys of the period
Anderson, P., Lineages of the Absolutist State, London, 1979
Andreyev, N. E. , Studies in Muscovy: Western influence and Byzantine inheritance,
1970, 586:1.c.95.115
Baron S H, Explorations in Muscovite History, London, 1991, 586:3.c.95.83
Baron, S. H., Muscovite Russia, London, 1980, 220.c.98.238
Bushkovitch P., Religion and Society in Russia. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries, 1992
Cambridge Companion to Russian Studies (History)
Crummey, R. O., Formation of Muscovy, 1304-1613, London, 1987
Eaton, M. L., Cadasters and Censuses of Muscovy
Fennell, J.L.I., A History of the Russian Church to 1448, 1995, 67:7.c.95.173
Flier M.S. & Rowland D. (eds), Medieval Russian Culture, Berkeley, 1994
Hellie, R., Readings for Introduction to R. Civilization : Muscovite Soc., 1970
Hughes L. (ed), New Prespectives on Muscovite History, London, 1993
Kliuchevskii V.O., History of Russia,
Kollman, N.S., By Honor Bound. State and Society in Early Modern Russia, 1999,
588:7.c.95.162 (XVI-XVIIth c.)
Kollman, N.S., Kinship and Politics: the Making of the Muscovite Political System,
1345-1547, 1987, 586:3.c.95.63
Martin, J., Medieval Russia, 980-1584, Cambridge 1995
Pipes – see under Structures and Debates
Platonov, S. F., History of Russia, M, 1925
Presniakov, A. E., The Tsardom of Muscovy, Gulf Breeze, 1978, 586:3.c.95.65
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1995
Smith, R. E. F., Peasant Farming in Muscovy, Cambridge, 1977
Smolitsch, I., Das Russisches Monchtum, Wurzburg, 1953
Soloviev S.M., History of Russia , Gulf Breeze, 1995
Szeftel, M., Russian Institutions and Culture up to Peter the Great, London, 1975
Worman R., Scenarios of Power. Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, Princeton,
Vernadsky, G. V., History of Russia, London, 1967
2. Literature: surveys of the period
A History of Russian literature, 11th-17th centuries: a textbook, Moscow, 1989
Birnbaum, H., On Medieval and Renaissance Slavic Writing, Hague, 1974
Børtnes, J, Visions of Glory: Studies in Early Russian Hagiography, Oslo, 1988 :
67:7.c.95.144
Cambridge Companion to Russian Studies, Cambridge, 1980
Fennell, J. L. I. and Stokes, A., Early Russian Literature, Oxford, 1974,
756:14.c.95.121
Kuskov, V. V., A History of Old Russian literature, Moscow, 1980
Lenhoff G, ‘Toward a Theory of Protogenres in Medieval Russian Letters’, RR, 43
(1984): 31-54*
Likhachev, D. S., The Great Heritage: the Classical Literature of Old Rus, Moscow,
1981, 756:14.d.95.212
Marker, G., ‘Literacy and Literacy Texts in Muscovy…’, SR, 49/1(1990): 74-89*
Marker, G., ‘Russia and the “Printing Revolution”: Notes and Observations’, SR, 41/2
(1982): 266-283*
Seeman K-D., Ingham N., ‘Genres and the Alterity of Old Russian Literature’ SEER,
31/2 (1987): 246-258*
Tschizhevskij, D., History of Russian Literature from the 11th Century to the End of
the Baroque, Hague, 1960
1983
3. Art
Surveys of the period
Brumfield, W.C., Gold in Azure: one thousand years of Russian architecture, Boston,
Idem., A history of Russian architecture, Cambridge, 1993
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Cambridge Companion to Russian Studies, vol. 3
Dekorativnoe oformlenie drevnerusskikh knig, Leningrad, 1979
Dragotsennyi kamen' v russkom iuvelirnom iskusstve xii-xviii vekov, M,
Ikonostas/Iconostasis: proiskhozhdenie, razvitie, simvolika, (ed. A. Lidov), Moscow,
2000 (essays, with abstracts in English)
Lazarev V.N., Russkaia ikonopis (6 vols in different aspects), Moscow 1983
Neubauer, E., Kunst und Literatur im alten Russland: Architektur, Ikonenmalerei,
Dichtkunst, Leipzig, 1988
Russaia ikona xiv-xvii vekov, Moscow, 1988
Muscovite Art: Moscow
Dionisii i iskusstvo Moskvy xv-xvi stoletii,
Drevnerusskoe iskusstvo XV-XVII vekov, Moscow, 1981
Drevnerusskoe iskusstvo : monumental´naia zhivopis´ XI-XVII vv, Moscow,
1980
Muscovite Art: Other Centres
Freski Iaroslavlia, Moscow, 1982
Smirnova E.S. et al., , Zhivopis´ Velikogo Novgoroda, XV vek, Moscow 1982
Ovchinnikov S., Zhivopis´ drevnego Pskova : XIII-XVI veka, Moscow, 1971
Popov G.V., Tverskaia ikona XIII-XVII vekov, Moscow, 1993
4. Structures & Debates
Law
Slavery
Kaiser, D., Growth of Law in Medieval Russia, Princ, 1980
Kaiser D (ed), Laws of Rus, SaltLC, 1992
Pamiatniki russkogo prava, M, 1953
Leventer, H., Comment on Richard Hellie’s “Recent Soviet Historiography on Early
Modern Russian Slavery”’, RR, 36/1 (1977): 64-67*
Military
Hellie, R., re- Comments on …Early Modern Russian Slavery, RR, 36/1 (1977) 68-75*
Cf Poe, ‘What did…’ under Ivan III below
Poe, M., ‘The Consequences of the Military Revolution in Muscovy: A Comparative
Perspective’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 38/4 (1996) 603-618
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Family
Kivelson V., ‘The Effects of Partible Inheritance: Gentry Familiesand the State in
Muscovy’, RR, 53/2 (1994): 197-212
Kleimola, A, ‘“In Accordance with the Holy Apostles”: Muscovite Dowries and
Womens Property Rights’, 1992, 51: 204-229
Kliuchevskii V., ‘On Childhood and Education in Early Mdern Russia’, Hist. Of
Education Quarterly, 17/4 (1977): 417-447
Court
Weickhardt G., ‘Legal Rights of Women in Russia, 1100-1750’, SR, 55/1 (1996): 1-23
Bogatyrev S., The Sovereign and his Counsellors. Ritualised Consultations in
Muscovite Political Culture, 1350s-1570’s, Helsinski, 2000
Kollman N.S., ‘Ritual and Social Drama at the Muscovite Court’, SR, 45/3
(1986): 486-502
Thyret I., “Blessed is the Tsaritsa’s Womb”: The Myth of the Miraculous Birth
and Royal Motherhood in Muscovite Russia, RR, 53/4 (1994): 479-496
Patrimonial Theory
5. Topics
Pipes, R., Russia under the Old Regime, London, 1974; Discussed in (among others)
1) George G. Weickhardt, ‘The Pre-Petrine Law of Property’, SR 52/4
(1993): 663-679.
2) Pipes R., ‘Was There Private Property in Muscovite Russia?’, SR,
53/2 (1994): 524-530
3) George G. Weickhardt, ‘Was There Private Property in Muscovite
Russia? (in Response)’, SR 53/2 (1994): 531-538.
4) Rowland D., ‘Did Muscovite Literary Ideology Place Limits on the
Power of the Tsar (1540s-1660s)?’, RR, 49/2 (1990): 125-155
Moscow & Muscovy
Alef G., ‘The Political Significance of the Inscriptions on Muscovite Coinage in the
Reign of Vasilii II’, Speculum, 34/1 (1959): 1-19*
Crummey, R., ‘The Silence of Muscovy’, RR, 46/2 (1987): 157-164*
Fennell, J.L.I., The Emergence of Moscow, 1304-1359, 1968, 586:3.c.95.15
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Meyendorff, J., Byzantium and the Rise of Russia, Camb, 1981
Morris A., ‘The Medieval Emergence of the Volga-Oka Region’, Annals of the Assoc.
Of American Geographers, 61/4 (1971): 697-710*
Church
Alef G., ‘Muscovy and the Council of Florence’, SR, vol. 20, No. 3 (1961), 389-401* 1
Miller D., ‘Monumental Building as an Indicator of Economic Trnds in Northern Rus in
the Late Kievan and Mongol Periods, 1138-1462’, AHR, 94/2 (1989): 360-390
Bushkovitch P., ‘The Epiphany Ceremonyof the Russian Court in the Sixteenth-
Seventeenth Centuries’, RR, 49/1, 1990*
‘Legends of the Icon of Our Lady of Vladimir: A Study of the Development of
Muscovite National Consciousness’, Speculum, 43/4 (1968): 657-670*
Tatar-Mongols
Allsen, T.T., ‘Mongol Census Taking in Rus 1245-1275’, Harvard Ukrainian
Studies, 5, 1, 1981, 32-53
Boyle, J. A., Mongol World Empire (Essays), 1966
Cherniavsky M., ‘Khan or Basileus: An Aspect of Russian Medieval Political Theory’,
JoHI, 20/4 (1959):459-476*
Halperin, C. J., Russia and the Golden Horde, 1985, H, 586:3.c.95.61
Halperin, C. J., Tatar Yoke, 1986, H, 620:33.c.95.5
Hartog, Leo de, Russia and the Mongol yoke:.. 1221-1502, 1996, 586:3.c.95.113
Ostrowski, D., ‘The Mongol Origins of Muscovite Political Institutions’, SR, 49/4
(1990): 525-542*
Ostrowski, D., Muscovy and the Mongols: cross-cultural influences on the steppe
frontier, 1304-1589, 1998, 586:3.c.95.130
Vernadsky, G., The Mongols and Russia, New Haven; London, 1970
Novgorod
Birnbaum, H., Lord Novgorod The Great, 1981
1 All asterisked articles can be downloaded on JSTOR
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Ivan III
Alef G., ‘The Adoption of the Muscovite Two-Headed Eagle: A Discordant View’,
Speculum, vol. XLI, No.1 (1966)
Alef G., Rulers and nobles in fifteenth century Muscovy:essays, 1983, 588:3.c.95.46
Al'shits, D. N., Nachalo samoderzhaviia v Rossii, M, 1988
1952
Bazilevich, K. O., Mezhdunarodnye sviazi Rossii v XIV-XV vv, M, 1952
Bazilevich, K. O., Vneshniaia politika russkogo tsentralizovannogo gosudarstva, M,
Bertenev, S., Moskovskii Kreml' v starinu i teper', M, 1916
Croskey R., ‘The Diplomatic Forms of Ivan III’s Realtionship with the Crimean Khan’,
SR, 43/2 (1984): 257-269
Croskey, R., Muscovite Diplomatic Practice in the Reign of Ivan III, NY, 1987
Dewey H., The 1497 Sudebnik – Muscovite Russia’s First National Law Code’,
ASEER, 15/3 (1956): 325-338
Eaton H., ‘Cadasters and Censuses of Muscovy’, SR, 26/1 (1967)
Fennell, J.L.I., Ivan the Great of Moscow, Cambridge, 1961, 586:33.c.95.7
Hellie, R., Slavery in Russia 1450-1725, Chicago, 588:7.c.95.80
Kollman N.S., ‘Consensus Politics: The Dynastic Crisis of the 1490’s Reconsidered’,
RR, 45/3 (1986): 235-267
Moon, D., ‘Reassessing Russian Serfdom’, EHQ, 1996
Poe, M., ‘What did Russians Mena when they Called themselves “Slaves of the
Tsar”?’, SR, 57/3 (1998): 585-608
IIIrd ROME
Rowland D., ‘Moscow – The Third Rome or the New Israel’, RR, 55/4 (1996): 591-614
(has excellent bibliography in footnotes)*
Ivan IV
Auerbach, I, Ivan-The-Terrible, Spies And Traitors In Muscovite Russia And The
Grand-Duchy Of Lithuania, Russian History, 5-35, 1987, 14 (1-4)
Bogatyrev, S, ‘Terrible Tsar Or Terrible Times? A Psychological Portrait Of Ivan The
Terrible In The Historiography’, Russian History, 285-308, 1995 (Fall), Vol. 22 (3)
Cherniavsky M., ‘Ivan the Terrible as Renaissance Prince’, SR, 27/2 (1968): 195-211
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Culpepper J.M., ‘The Kremlin Executions of 1575 and the Enthronement of Simeon
Bekbulatovich’, SR 24/3 (1965): 503-506
Fennell, J. L. I., Kurbsky's History of Ivan IV, 1965
Fennell, J. L. I., The Correspondence between Prince A.M.Kurbsky and Tsar Ivan IV of
Russia, 1564-1579, 1955
Graham, H. F., ‘How Do We Know What We Know About Ivan-The-Terrible (A
Paradigm)’, RH 179-198, 1987, 14 (1-4)
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Grobovsky, A. N., Chosen Council of Ivan IV: re-Interpretation, NY, 1969
Hellie R.S., 'Zemskii sobor', Mod Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History 45: 226-
Hellie, R, ‘What Happened, How Did He Get Away With It - Ivan-The-Terrible
Paranoia And The Problem Of Institutional Restraints’, RH 1987, 14 (1-4): 199-224
320-322
Hulbert E., ‘The Zemskii Sobor of 1575: A Mistake in Translation’, SR, 25/2 (1966)
Hunt, P., ‘Ivan IV’s Personal Myhtology of Kingship’, SR, 52/4 (1993): 769-809
Ivan the Terrible: A Quarcentenary Celebration of his Death., (Special issue of the
journal Russian History)
Khoroshkevich, A.I, Ivan-The-Terrible As The 1st Crowned Czar, The Boyars
Resentment And Hostile Actions Of 1553, , 23-42, 1994, May-Jun, 3
Kleimola, A.M., ‘Ivan-The-Terrible And His Gofers - Aspects Of State Security In The
1560s’, RH, 14/1-4, 1987: 283-292
Kusber, J, Ivan-The-Terrible As A Religious Type - A Study Of The Background,
Genesis And Development Of The Theocratic Idea Of The 1st Russian Czar And His
Attempts To Establish The So-Called Free-Autocracy In Russia
Lubimenko I., ‘The Correspondence of Queen Elizabeth with the Russian
Czars’, American Historical Review, Vol. 19, No. 3. (Apr., 1914), pp. 525-542.
Miller, D.B, ‘Official History In The Reign Of Ivan-The-Terrible And Its 17th-
Century Imitators’, RH, 14/1-4, 1987: 333-360
Platt, KMF, History and despotism, or: Hayden White vs. Ivan the Terrible and Peter
the Great, RETHINKING HISTORY (247-269), 1999
Renaissance, Reformation and Absolutism 1450-1650, NY, 1972
Skrynnikov R. G. , Ivan the Terrible, Gulf Breeze, 1981, 586:33.c.95.62
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The Tale of Peter, Prince of the Horde
�лючевский, �ревнерусские жития: 38—43
�митриев �. А. ‘�южетное повествование в житийных памятниках XIII— XV
веков’, �стоки русской беллетристики: 244—251
�елякова �. �. ‘�екоторые наблюдения над отражением исторических фактов в
“�овести о �етре, царевиче Ордынском”’. �итература �ревней �уси:
�сточниковедение, 1988:77—81; ‘“�овесть о �етре, царевиче Ордынском” в
историко-литературном контексте (к вопросу о датировке произведения)’,
�О��� (46) 1993: 74—87
�митриева �. �., ‘�овесть о �етре, царевиче Ордынском’, �ловарь книжников v.
2, pt. 2:256—259.
SEER, 60(4) 60 (4): 623-626 1982
Kurbskii-Groznyi Correspondence
Auerbach, I, ‘Edward Keenan and the correspondence between Prince A.M. Kurbskii
and Ivan the Terrible in Hindsight - A Rejoinder’, JGO, 1999, 402-4
Halperin, C., "Keenan's Heresy Revisited", JGO, 28 (1980)
Halperin, C.J., Edward Keenan And The Correspondence Between Prince A.M.
Kurbskii And Ivan The Terrible In Hindsight, JGO, 376-403, 1998, 46 (3)
Keenan, E, ‘Ivan-The-Terrible And Silvestr - The History Of A Myth’, AHR, 95/4
(1990): 1246-1247
Keenan, EL, Edward Keenan and the correspondence between Prince A.M. Kurbskii
and Ivan the Terrible in hindsight - A response to C.J. Halperin, JGO, 404-415, 1998 46 (3)
686-691*
Owen T., ‘A Lexical Approach to the Kurbskii-Groznyi Problem’, SR. 41/4 (1982)
Owen T., ‘Quotations from a Common Source in the Kurbskii-Groznyi
Correspondence’, RR. 49/2 (1990) 157-165*
Skrynnikov, R. G., ‘Ivan-The-Terrible And Kurbskii - Results Of A Textological
Experiment’, JGO, 1993, 41/2: 161-179
Skrynnikov, R. G., ‘On the Authenticity of the Kurbskii – Groznyi Correpsondence: A
summary’, SR, 37/1 (1978): 107-115
299-311*
Zenkovsky, S., ‘Prince Kurbsky – Tsar Ivan IV Correspondence…’, RR, 32/3 (1973):
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Domostroi
Pouncy C., ‘The Origins of the Domostroi: A Study in Manuscript History’, RR, 46/4
(1987): 357-373
Pouncy C, Domostroi. Rules for Russian Households Time of Ivan IV, 1994,
757:6.c.95.35
Time of Troubles
Dunning, C. S., Russia’s First Civil War: the Time of Troubles and the Founding of the
Romanov dynasty, Pennsylvania, 2001
Perrie M., Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia. The False
Tsars of the Time of Troubles, 1995
The First Romanovs
Dukes, P., The Making of Russian Absolutism 1613-1801, London, 1982
Hellie R. (ed), The Muscovite Law Code (Ulozhenie) of 1649, Irv Cal, 1988
Kivelson V., Autocracy in the Provinces. The Muscovite Gentry and Political Culture
in the 17th century, Stanf, 1997
Kivelson V., ‘The Devil Stole His Mind: The Tsar and the 1648 Moscow
Uprising’, American Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 3. (Jun., 1993), pp. 733-756.
Iuliania Osorina
Kleimola, A, ‘“In Accordance with the Holy Apostles”: Muscovite Dowries and
Womens Property Rights’, 1992, 51: 204-229
Avvakum and Raskol
Archpriest Avvakum, the life written by himself, trns & ed Kenneth N. Brostrom,
Michigan, 1979: 701:6.c.14.4
Special Issue of Revue des Etudes Slaves, vol. 69, Nos 1-2, 1997
Cherniavsky M., ‘The Old Believers and the New Religion’, SR, 25/1 (1966): 1-39
Crummey, R.O., ‘Old Belief as Popular Religion: New Approaches, SR 52/4 (1994): 700-
712.*
Demkin A. V., Seventeenth Century Russia, 1999, 1999.8.8019
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Demkova N.S., Sochineniia protopopa Avvakuma i publitsisticheskaia literatura rannego
staroobriadchestva : materialy i issledovaniia, SPb. 1998, 2001.8.8782
Lupinin N., Religious Revolt in the XVIIIth century, Princeton 1984
Michels, G., ‘The First Old Believers in Tradition and Historical Reality ‘ JfGO No. 41,
1993, P533.c.16
Michels G., ‘The Solovki Uprising: Religion and Revolt in Northern Russia’, RR, 51/1
(1992): 1-15
Robson R., Old Believers in Modern Russia (first 2 chapters), 1995
Zenkovsky S., ‘The Russian Church Schism…’, RR, 16/4 (1957): 37-58
Afanasii Nikitin
Majeska, G. P., Russian Travellers to Constantinople in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Centuries, Wash, 1984
Kirchner W., ‘The Voyage of Athanasius Nikitin to India 1466-1472’, ASEER, 5/3-4
(1946): 46-54
Lenhoff, G., ‘Beyond Three Seas: Afanasij Nikitin's Journey from Orthodoxy to
Apostasy’, EEQ, 13/4 (1979): 431-447
Lenhoff, G., Martin J., ‘The Commercial and Cultural Context of Afanasij Nikitin's
Journey Beyond Three Seas’ JGO 37/3(1989): 321-344
Zapiski russkikh puteshestvennikov XVI-XVII vv., ed. Prokof'ev, L.I., Moscow, 1988,
757:6.d.95.13
ABBREVIATIONS
EEQ East European Quarterly
JfGO Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas
JoHI Journal of the History of Ideas
RES Revue des Etudes Slaves
RH Russian History
RR Russian Review
SR Slavic Review
SEER Slavonic and East European Review
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