Shaw, Denis J.B;
(2024)
Reconnoitring Russia.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Like many European countries during the Great Age of Discovery and Exploration, Russia embarked on policies of state building, exploration and imperial expansion. At the beginning of the fourteenth century, the territory under Moscow’s control was about twenty thousand square kilometres. By 1800 Russia’s empire had expanded to some eighteen million square kilometres. Russia had thus become one of the world’s greatest empires. By focusing on such geographical practices as exploring, observing, describing, mapping and similar activities, Reconnoitring Russia seeks to explain how Russia’s rulers and its educated public came to know and understand the territory of their expanding state and empire, especially as a result of the modernizing policies of such sovereigns as Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. It places the Russian experience into a comparative context, showing how that experience compares with those of other European countries over the same period. The book adopts a broad chronological framework, exploring the age between 1613 when the Romanov dynasty assumed power and 1825, the conclusion of Alexander I’s reign, or what is often termed the end of the ‘long eighteenth century’.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Reconnoitring Russia |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800085909 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800085909 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800085909 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author, 2024 Images © Author and copyright holders named in captions, 2024 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book's Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book's Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Shaw, D. J. B. 2024. Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, exploring and describing early modern Russia, 1613–1825. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800085909 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | cartography, state building, early modern period, Great Age of Discovery and Exploration |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10197270 |
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