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Authors: Catherine Merridale
Aleksei Petrovich (son of Peter the Great)
Aleksii, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia
Alexander I, Tsar: collusion in father’s murder; coronation; response to Napoleon’s invasion; commissions reconstruction of Moscow after Napoleon’s occupation; and Kremlin treasure collection; planned memorial for victory over Napoleon
Alexander II, Tsar; abolishes serfdom; assassination; monument to
Alexander III, Tsar
Alexander Nevsky
(film 1938)
Alexander of Lithuania
Alexander of Tver
Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia
Alexandra Saburova
Alexandria
Alexandrovskaya sloboda
alphabet reform
Amsterdam
Amvrosii, Metropolitan and Archbishop of Moscow
Anastasia Romanovna Yureva-Zakharina
Andrei Ivanovich (brother of Vasily III)
Andropov, Yury
Anglo-Saxons, and fur trade
Anisimov, A. I.
Annibale, Pietro
Annunciation Cathedral
anti-Semitism
Arabs, and fur trade
Archangel
Archangel Cathedral (Cathedral of the Archangel Michael)
architecture: Italian influence; Nikon and; Moscow school of architecture founded; Peter the Great introduces European practices; neo-classicism in the Kremlin; pseudo-Byzantine style; ‘Russian’ style;
style moderne;
plans for Moscow’s reconstruction in 1920s; and Russian identity; and the Russian Orthodox Church
Argamakov
Armand, Inessa
Armoury Chamber museum
arms race, superpower
army: expands under Romanovs; gentry militia men;
streltsy
Arsenii, Archimandrite
arts and crafts workshops, in the Kremlin
Ascension Cathedral (Cathedral for the Ascension Convent)
Ascension monastery/convent
Assembly of the Land
Astrakhan
Astrakhan Khanate
astronomy
Augustin, Metropolitan and Archbishop of Moscow
Augustus, Emperor of Rome
Augustus II of Poland and Saxony
Avvakum
Azov, captured by Peter the Great
Bakhchisarai, Crimea
Bakunin, Mikhail
Balch, Tatiana
Ballets Russes
Baranovsky, Petr
Barghoorn, Frederick
Barozzi, Giacomo da Vignola,
Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture
Bartenev, Petr
Bartenev, Sergei;
The Moscow Kremlin in Old Times and Now
Basil the Blessed
St Basil’s Cathedral
Basmanov, Petr Fedorovich
Batalov, Andrei
Batiushkov, Konstantin
Batu-khan (Mongol leader)
Bauman, Nikolai
Bazhenov, Vasily
Beauvais, France, Cathedral of St Pierre
Bedny, Demyan
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Behrs, Sofiya
Beijing, China
Bekhbulatovich, Simeon
Belarus
Belousov brothers
Belovezhsky Nature Reserve, Belarus
Belsky, Bogdan
Benjamin, Walter
Benois, Alexander
Berezovsky, Boris
Beria, Lavrenty
Berlin Wall, fall of
Bessarion of Nicea, Cardinal
Bessemer, Henry
Bilibin, Ivan
Billington, James
Black Death
Black Hundreds (vigilante group)
Black Sea
Blaeu, Joan
Blair, Tony
Blanqui, Auguste
Bode, Baron
Bogatyrev, Sergei
Bogoliubsky, Andrei
Boldin, Valery
Bolghar, trade routes
Bologna, Italy
Bolshaya Ordinka (Great Horde Road)
Bolsheviks; seize control from the Provisional Government; move government to Moscow; Central Executive Committee
Bolshoi Theatre
Bonch-Bruevich, Vladimir
Bonumbre of Ajaccio, Cardinal
Boris, Tsar of Russia
see
Godunov, Boris
Borodin, Pavel
Borodino, battle of
Borovitsky gate
Botkin family
Bove, Osip
boyars, status of
Braque, Georges
Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of
Brezhnev, Leonid: brings about Khrushchev’s removal as Leader; becomes Party Leader; moves office out of the Kremlin; receives foreign guests in the Kremlin; styles himself Head of State; war in Afghanistan; ill health and death
Brezhneva, Galina
bride shows
British craftsmen, in the Kremlin
Brown, ‘Capability’
Bruegel, Pieter the Elder
Brunelleschi, Filippo
Brusilov, General
Buckingham Palace
Bugrov, Nikolai
Bukharin, Nikolai
Bulganin, Nikolai
Burbulis, Gennady
Bush, George H. W.
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Capa, Robert
Carcano, Alevisio de
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow: of Konstantin Ton; post-Soviet reconstruction
Cathedral of the Intercession of the Moat
see
St Basil’s Cathedral
Cathedral of the Saviour in the Forest
Catherine I, Empress, crowned by Peter the Great
Catherine II, Empress of Russia (Catherine the Great): complains of Kremlin’s discomforts; dislike of Moscow; coronation; convenes Legislative Commission; renovations in the Kremlin; coffin desecrated by Bolsheviks
Catholic Inquisition
Ceausescu, Nicolae
Chancellor, Richard
Charles XII of Sweden
Chazov, Yevgeniy
Chebrikov, Viktor
Chechnya
Cheka (secret police)
Chekhov, Anton:
The Cherry Orchard;
The Seagull
Cheliadnin-Fedorov, Ivan Petrovich
Cherkassky family
Chernenko, Konstantin
Chernigov
Chernobyl, nuclear disaster
Chernyaev, Anatoly
Cherson (Black Sea port)
China, communist revolution
Chinghis (Genghis) Khan
Chistyi, Nazary
Chopin, Frédéric
Christian V of Denmark
Chudov (Miracles) Monastery; founded in the 14th century; houses Catherine the Great’s Legislative Assembly; decline in numbers of monks; monks expelled from; destroyed under Stalin
Chudov Palace
Church of St John of the Ladder
Church of the Deposition of the Robe
Churchill, Sir Winston
civil service; development under Ivan the Terrible
civil war: (1433–47); (1606–12)
;
(1918–21)
Class Struggle
(journal)
clocks and clock-making
Cold War
collectivization
Collins, Samuel
Commissariat for Internal Affairs
(NKVD)
communism; collapses in Eastern Europe; and revolutionary art
Communist Party: hammer and sickle emblem; Seventeenth Congress; Twentieth Congress; express disapproval of Stalin’s towers; overlaps with government; Central Committee building, Old Square; Pioneers; assets seized by Yeltsin; victim of
glasnost;
regaining popularity in 1990s
Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR
Conrad, Christopher
Constantine the Great
Constantine XI Palaeologus
Constantinople; and the Vikings; and Orthodox Christianity in Russia; sack of, by the Fourth Crusade; fall of; European attempt to regain; ‘lost’ library
Contarini, Ambrogio
Le Corbusier
Corriere della Sera
Corvinus, Matthias
cossacks
Council of Ferrara-Florence
Council of People’s Commissars
coup, Soviet, 1991
crime, in tsarist Kremlin; in post-Soviet Russia
Crimean Khanate
Cubism
Custine, Marquis de
Dabelov, Von
Daniil, Metropolitan of Moscow
Daniil Aleksandrovich, Prince of Moscow
Daniilovichi
Darwin, Charles,
Origin of Species
Del Ponte, Carla
Denikin, Anton
Deptford, London
Derzhavin, Gavrila
Descartes, René
Devlet-Girey
Diaghilev, Sergei
Dionysii, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia
Dmitrievsky, Sergei
Dmitry Donskoi
Dmitry I (‘False Dmitry’): assassination; gathers support in Russia; rules as Tsar
Dmitry Ivanovich (son of Ivan the Terrible)
St Dmitry of Uglich
see
Dmitry Ivanovich (son of Ivan the Terrible)
Dmitry Solunsky, St
Dnieper region
Dnieper River
Dolgoruky, Yu. A.
Dolgoruky clan
Don Monastery
Dormition Cathedral; foundation of 14th century; re-building of 15th century; Epiphany celebration; Ivan III crowns grandson Dmitry as co-regent; Vasily III marries Elena Glinskaya; coronation of Ivan the Terrible; throne of Ivan the Terrible; icon to celebrate taking of Astrakhan; coronation of Simeon Bekhbulatovich; enthronement of first Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church; coronation of Boris Godunov; coronation of Mikhail Romanov; Peter the Great crowns his wife Catherine I; Napoleon weighs out looted gold and silver; repairs by Catherine the Great in 1770s; celebrated in Fabergé egg; repairs by Archaeological Society; coronation of Nicholas II; damaged by Bolshevik artillery; Easter celebration; untouched by Stalin
Dostoevsky, Fedor
Duma
Dune, Eduard
Dunning, Chester
Düsseldorf, Germany
Dutch East India Company
Dvina River
d’yaki
Dzerzhinsky, Felix
Eastern Europe, democratic change
The Economist
education, first Russian institute for higher education
Egotov, I. V.
Eisenstein, Sergei,
Ivan the Terrible
(film, 1944)
Ekaterinburg: murder of the Romanov royal family
see also
Sverdlovsk
El Lissitsky
electricity, introduced to the Kremlin; introduced in Moscow
Elena Glinskaya
Elena Ivanovna
Elena Sheremeteva
Elena Stepanovana of Moldavia
Elizabeth, Empress of Russia
Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Elizabeth II, Queen
Elizaveta Fedorovna (wife of Grand Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich)
Engels, Friedrich
England: develops trade links with Kremlin; Godunov considers asylum in; Ivan the Terrible considers asylum in
English craftsmen, in the Kremlin
Enukidze, Abel
Epiphany ceremony on the Moscow River
Ermolin, Vasily
Eugene IV, Pope
Evdokiya Donskaya
Ezhov, Nikolai
Fabergé, Carl
Faceted Palace; damaged by Napoleon’s troops; ‘restored’ for the coronation of Alexander III
falcons/ falconry
famine: (1569–70); (1580s); (1601–2); (1921); (Ukraine,1932–3)
Fedor II, Tsar