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University of Pennsylvania
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HIST 0240 | The Rise and Fall of the Russian Empire, 1552-1917
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2021
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Russia Russia • Russia’s position in history: Europe, Asia, something different? • Political connotations. • Interaction with nomads and Mongol-Turkic peoples. • Several different principalities. • In a pattern that we already saw, one powerful, authoritarian state slowly emerges dominant: Grand Duchy of Moscow (“Moscovy”). • Big victory over the Mongol-Tatars in the Battle of Kulikovo (1380) by forces of Prince Dmitry Donskoy. 2 3 4 5 From Principality to Empire • After 1453 (fall of Constantinople), Ivan III claimed Moscow was the third Rome, marries Sophia Palaiologina, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor Constantine XI, and adopts the Byzantine double-headed eagle in his coat-of-arms. • In 1547, Grand Duke Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) is crowned the first Tsar (“Caesar”) of Russia. • Starts big expansion in Siberia: 1. in 1555 Ivan IV takes the title of Lord of Siberia. 2. Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689 with China. • For over four centuries, Russia expands an average of fifty square miles a day! • Why Siberia? Furs (10% for the state). • Trading dynasty of Stroganovs. 6 7 8 9 Muscovy Company • The Muscovy Trading Company was a company chartered in 1555, two years after the formation of the The Mystery, Company, and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers for the Discovery of Regions, Dominions, Islands, and Places Unknown. • Search for a North-east passage to China. • It was the first major English joint-stock trading company. • Precursor of other trading companies: Levant Company in 1581, the Venice Company in 1583, East India Company in 1600, Virginia Company in 1609, and the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1670. • The Muscovy Company had a monopoly on trade between England and Muscovy until 1698. It survived as a trading company until 1917. • Wool for furs and timber, whaling. 10 11 12 13 14

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