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Documents in Russian History, An Outline Source Book
By Nathaniel Knight, Seton Hall University. Provides
translations of important historical texts: Catherine the
Great's Nakaz, Radishchev's
Journey from St.
Petersburg to Moscow, Chaadaev's
Philosophical Letter,
Pobedonotsev's Reflections of a Russian Statesman, and
Lenin's What is to be Done, just to name a few.
A History of
Russia
By Professor Michael Petrovich of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Multimedia lectures provide an overview of
Russian history. There is a total of 46 recorded lectures with
illustrations
covering the period from 800 to
1917.
The Empire that
was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated
"The
photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944)
offer a vivid portrait of a lost world -
the Russian Empire on
the eve of World War I and the coming revolution."
The Imperial Russia WebRing
page
Links to some useful sites.
St. Petersburg Times
chronology of Tsars
The site provides short biographies
of Russian rulers.
Peter I (the Great)
- 4 primary sources
Catherine II (the Great) - 3 primary sources
Catherine II
(the Great) - Manifesto of 22 July 1763
Imperial Manifesto on Poland, 1832
Biblioteka Proekta 1812 God
Russian texts of memoirs,
letters and resources
pertaining to the War of 1812.
Alexander II - coronation
The
Russian Orange Book
"Documents
respecting the negotiations preceding the war, published by the
Russian government."
AlexanderPalace.org websites
A list of
AlexanderPalace.org websites about Russian history and
the Romanovs.
Alexander
Palace Time Machine
At this site
created by Bob Atchison you are taken on a tour of Russian palaces and given
access to biographies, diaries and all sorts of Romanov memorabilia.
Anna Vyrubova - Memoirs
An online book about Romanov
Russia.
Royal
Russia
A History of the Romanov Dynasty
and the Russian Monarchy. This site is
maintained by the Imperial Russian Historical Society.
Thirteen
Years at the Russian Court by Pierre Gilliard
Tsarskoe Selo in 1910
Count Paul Benckendorff - Last days at Tsarskoe
Selo: personal notes and memories
Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden - The Life and
Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of
Russia (hagiography)
Abdication of Nicholas II and other documents
For an index of sites on
Russian history covering more than one period
click
here.
For a list of major gateways to Russia-related
sites, click
here.
See also
Archives.
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