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Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698 - Hardcover
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Peter the Great's visit to England in January 1698 has been called "the most picturesque episode in the history of Anglo-Russian relations." This book shows how the British have responded to Peter during the past three centuries. It makes use of an extensive range of printed sources to show the reactions to his visit, his personality and his reign by contemporaries and by succeeding generations of journalists, biographers, poets and dramatists, as well as by painters and engravers.
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"Jabotinsky's writings, is valuable...useful introduction." Slavic Review
"Professor Anthony Cross, the self-styled `Old Man from Cambridge,' is not only one of the leading British specialists on eighteenth-century Russia but surely also the dean of scholars specializing in Anglo-Russian cultural relations." Slavic and East European Journal
"...this study does make a significant contribution...it situates-intellectually and politically-some well-known sources that Russian historians have decontextualized and taken at face value...the author has filled a gap in the voluminous scholarship on Peter the Great, adding a useful foil to the treatment in the national historiography and more broadly in modern Russian culture." The Historian
"Anthony Cross's latest work...adds to the author's impressive list of published monographs about Russian literature and culture...A meticulously thorough, detailed survey of published sources...a fine portrait of Cross's study...Cross's monograph is well written and presented." Canadian Slavonic Papers
"...and interesting and well-balanced book." The International History Review
"This is an engaging book, rich in anecdote and nicely illustrated with examples of Petrine iconography. Its entertainment value, however, should not detract from its serious message about the state of Anglo-Russian relations over three centuries." Canadian Journal of History
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0521782988
- ISBN 13 9780521782982
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Peter the Great's visit to England in the first months of 1698 has been called 'the most picturesque episode in the history of Anglo-Russian relations', and lives on most vividly in popular memory for the devastation caused at Sayes Court, John Evelyn's house and garden in Deptford. Recent celebrations of the tercentenary of that visit have refocused attention on the most famous of Russian tsars, but the story of Britain's love-hate relationship with him over the intervening centuries has never before been told. This study analyses changing British reactions to Peter in an extremely wide variety of printed sources - newspapers and journals, letters and collections of anecdotes, histories and biographies, novels, poems and plays. A final innovative chapter is devoted to images of the tsar as interpreted by British painters from Godfrey Kneller to Daniel Maclise, and by a whole cohort of engravers, illustrating biographies and travel accounts. This book shows how the British have responded to Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, since his momentous descent on London in January 1698. It uses an extensive range of printed sources to show the reactions to his visit, his personality and his reign by contemporaries and by succeeding generations. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780521782982
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