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Authors: Catherine Merridale
Fedor I, Tsar
Fedor III, Tsar (Fedor Alekseyevich)
Feodosiya Feodorovna
Feofil, Archbishop of Novgorod
Ferrara, Council of
Le Figaro
Filaret (Fedor Nikitich Romanov); installed as Patriarch
Filipp I, Metropolitan of Moscow
Filipp II, Metropolitan of Moscow
Finns, early settlers; Moscow named by
Fioravanti, Andrey
Fioravanti, Aristotele
First World War
Florence, Italy
Florinsky
Fontainebleau, France
foreign craftsmen in the Kremlin
Fourth Crusade
France: dislike of, by Paul I; French language spoken at court of Catherine the Great; French revolution; Marquis de Custine; Napoleon invades Russia
Frankland, Mark
Franks, and fur trade
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor
Fryazin, Bon
Fryazin, Marco
Fryazin, Onton
FSB (Federal Security Service)
Gagarin, Yuri
Galileo
Galloway, Christopher
Genghis Khan
see
Chinghis Khan
Gennady, Archbishop of Novgorod
Gerasimov, Alexander
Gerasimov, Mikhail Mikhailovich (forensic anthropologist)
Gerasimov, Mikhail (poet)
Germany: Frederick, III. Holy Roman Emperor; Thirty Years War; First World War; treaty of Brest-Litovsk; Second World War
Geronty, Metropolitan
Gian-Battista della Volpe
Gil, Stefan
glasnost
Glinka, Mikhail
Glinka, Sergei
Glinskaya, Anna
Glinskaya, Elena
Glinsky, Mikhail
Gobi desert
Godunov, Boris; background; building projects as regent; escapes conspiracy against him; facilitates creation of the Russian Orthodox patriarchate; re-building projects 16th century; crowned Tsar; plans for new cathedral; famine of 1601–2; death; removal of coffin from burial place
Godunov, Fedor Borisovich
Godunov, Semen
Godunova, Irina
Godunova, Ksenia
Godunova, Mariya
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Golden Horde
Golitsyn, Vasily
Golitsyn family
Golovina, Princess
Goncharova, A. A.
Gorbachev, Mikhail; on Khrushchev; on Brezhnev; on Kremlin privilege system; becomes Soviet Leader;
glasnost
policy;
perestroika;
ends Afghan war; receives Nobel Peace Prize; on Stalin; creates Congress of People’s Deputies; relationship with Yeltsin; creates role of President of the USSR; attempts to hold USSR together; held under house arrest in1991 coup; returns to Moscow after 1991 coup; rivalry with Yeltsin; last few weeks of office; hands over power to
Yeltsin
Gorbacheva, Raisa
Gorky, Maxim
Gosiewski, Alexander
GPU (secret police)
Grabar, Igor
Grachev, Andrei
Grachev, Pavel
Graf, Vilim
Graham, Thomas
Gramotin, Ivan
Grand Principality of Vladimir
Grande Armée (of Napoleon)
Graphic
(newspaper)
Great Depression 1930s
Greek Orthodox Church
Grek, Maxim
Grishin, Viktor
Gromyko, Andrei
Gropius, Walter
Gulag
GUM
Habsburg dynasty
Hals, Frans
Hanseatic League
Henry VIII of England
Herculaneum, re-discovery of
Herder, Johann Gottfried
Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
Hermogen, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
Herzen, Alexander
history and historians, Russian
Hitler, Adolf
Holy Roman Empire; dissolution of
hospital for officers, in the Kremlin 1914
Hughes, Lindsey,
Russia in the Age of Peter the Great
Hungary
iconography; Simon Ushakov
The Tree of the State of Muscovy;
introduced with Orthodox religion from Constantinople; created in the Kremlin workshops; European influences; mass-produced; 19th-century restoration of Faceted Palace; icons damaged and sold off by Bolsheviks; ‘Treasures of the Kremlin’ Exhibition; of the Saviour and St Nikola, on the Kremlin gates
Il’f and Petrov
Iliushin, Viktor
Ilmen, Lake
Imperial Russian Archaeolgical Society
infant mortality, Russia, beginning of 20th century
influenza epidemic
International Festival of Youth, Moscow
International Woman’s Day 1917
Iofan, Boris
Isfahan, Persia
Isidor, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia
Islam
Italy: builders and building skills; influence on Russian architecture; marriage of Sofiya to Ivan III; re-discovery of classical past
Ivan Alekseyevich (brother and co-Tsar of Peter the Great)
Ivan I, ‘Kalita’; inherits throne of Moscow; re-builds Kremlin walls; builds Dormition Cathedral in the Kremlin
Ivan III: assumes sovereignty of Moscow; commissions present structure of the Kremlin; extends Moscow’s regional power; renovation of Kremlin walls; marriage with Sofiya Palaeologina; and re-building of the Dormition Cathedral; betrothes daughter to Alexander of Lithuania; adopts title of
Tsar;
banned foreign merchants from Kremlin
Ivan IV (‘the Terrible’); birth; character and state of health ; coronation; renovations to the Kremlin; court of; expansion of Russian territory; threatens to abdicate;
oprichnina
palace; wives ; deference given to; kills his own son; death; ‘lost’ library; s examination of remains
Ivan Ivanovich (son of Ivan the Terrible)
Ivan the Great (bell tower); damaged by Napoleon’s troops
Ivan the Terrible
(film, 1944)
Ivanov, Dmitry
Ivanov-Shits, I. A.
Izvestiya
(newspaper)
Jackson, Michael
James I of England
Japan, war with Russia (1904–5)
Jenkinson, Anthony
Jeremiah, Patriarch of Constantinople
Junkers, The, defend the Kremlin against the Bolsheviks
Kabardino-Balkaria
Kaganovich, Lazar
Kalinin, Mikhail
Kalitnikovo, brick factory
Kalka River
Kalyaev, Ivan
Kamenev, Lev
Kameneva, Olga
Kaplan, Fanya
Kapuscinski, Ryszard
Karakorum (capital of the Mongol Empire)
Karamzin, Nikolai;
History of the Russian State;
Notes on Ancient and Modern Russia
Kazakhstan
Kazakov, Matvei
Kazan, captured by Ivan the Terrible
Kazan Cathedral, St Petersburg
Kazan Cathedral, Moscow
Kazan Khanate
Kazy-Girey (Tatar leader)
KGB
Khamtsov, A. I.
Khan, Genghis
see
Chinghis Khan
Khasbulatov, Ruslan
Khazars
Khlebnikov, Sergei
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail
Khotinenko, Vladimir
Khovrin, Vladimir
Khovrin family
Khrushchev, Nikita: and Josef Stalin; succeeds as Party Leader; repudiates Stalinism; plants orchard in the Kremlin; populism; builds Palace of Congresses in the Kremlin; removed as Party Leader
Khrushcheva, Nina Petrovna
Khwarezm
Kiev; seized by Vikings; arrival of Christianity; sacked by Mongol Horde; eclipsed as power base of Russia; ceases to be focus of Russian Orthodox Church; transferred from Polish to Russian rule 1686
Kirill-Beloozero Monastery
Kirov, Sergei
Kitai-gorod, Moscow
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Kliuchevsky, Vasily
Klyazma River
Knave of Diamonds (artists’ group)
Kohl, Helmut
Kolli, Nikolai
Kolomenskoe
Kolomna
Kolyvan (Tallinn)
Komissarzhevskaya, Vera
Komsomol
Kon, Fedor (architect)
Konchalovsky, Petr
Konenkov, S. T.
Konstantin Nikolaevich, Grand Duke
Konstantinov, Antip
Konyshev, Pavel
Korb, Johann Georg
Korean airline shot down by Soviets 1983
Korzhakov, Alexander
Kostikov, Vyacheslav
Kostof, Spiro,
A History of Architecture, Settings and Rituals
Kosygin, Aleksei
Kozhevnikov,
Russian Archive
(journal)
Krasin, Leonid
Kremlenagrad
(map)
Kremlin:
arts and crafts workshops; bells; burials; contemporary management of; coronations; falcons ; fires (1337), (1343), (1365), (1445), (1470), (1473), (1493), (1547), (1571), (1619), (1626), (1682), (1701), (1737); hanging gardens; icons of the Saviour and St Nikola; library and archives; religious status; symbolic status
Kremlin history:
Riurikid dynasty:
evidence of 12th-century construction; receives city bell of Tver; first referred to as ‘Kremlin’; development under Ivan I (Kalita); ‘Peter the Wonder-Worker’ becomes Kremlin’s first saint; early religious foundations; sacked by Mongol Horde; building of present structure under Ivan III; becomes art and treasure repository; 15th-century building and development; re-building of the Dormition Cathedral; European building and architectural influences; moat created; foreign merchants banned from; renovation under Ivan the Terrible; houses government officials; Ivan the Terrible’s use of; funeral of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich;
Kremlenagrad
(map); boyars’ obligation to serve at court; Buildings Chancellory; ‘False Dmitry’ arrives with Polish retainers; ‘False Dmitry’ murdered; Dmitry of Uglich’s corpse brought back for burial; houses Polish and mercenary troops in the Time of Troubles; looting of the Treasury during the Time of Troubles
Romanov dynasty:
rebuilding under the Romanovs; foreign artists and craftsmen enlisted by Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich; revolt; European influences on architecture and decor; theatre introduced by Aleksei Mikhailovich; revolt; Peter the Great takes command of Kremlin; builds arsenal; builds new fortifications; moves court to St Petersburg; treasury on display as visitor attraction; Catherine the Great’s improvements; development under Paul I; demolition and rebuilding under Alexander I; abandoned as Napoleon’s troops advance; Napoleon enters; desecration and looting by Napoleon’s troops; survives mining by Napoleon’s retreating army; reconstruction after Napoleon’s occupation; described by Marquis de Custine; Grand Kremlin Palace commissioned by Nicholas I; demolition of ancient churches by Nicholas I; establishment of museums and archives; celebrated by Fabergé egg; features on mass-produced icons and souvenirs; treasure collection catalogued; Armoury Chamber Museum; monument to Alexander II; life in the last years of the Tsars; Zabelin
The History of the City of Moscow;
Bartenev
The Moscow Kremlin in Old Times and Now;
electricity generating station; assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich; coronation of Nicholas II; houses Empress Alexandra’s hospital during First World War
Soviet era:
claimed by the Moscow city government; staff form union; damaged by the Bolsheviks; loss of valuable artefacts after revolution; Bolshevik government move in; ownership claimed by the People’s Republic; stores recovered loot and treasure after revolution; expulsion of monks and nuns by the Bolsheviks; removal of imperial monuments by the Bolsheviks; Easter celebration; seizure of Church assets; becomes symbol of Soviet power; demolition of religious buildings under the Bolsheviks; living conditions under the Soviets; Kremlin Affair; object of fear and isolation under Stalin; security under Stalin; hidden underground systems; bombed during Second World War; renovation post; souvenir guidebooks; becomes term used for government; becomes tourist attraction under Khrushchev; Lenin museum-apartment; propaganda department; Ministry of Culture; research staff appointed; religious buildings under Soviet regime; ‘Treasures of the Kremlin’ Exhibition; archaeological explorations under the Soviets; orchard planted by Khrushchev; Soviet infrastructure; ceases to be centre of power under Brezhnev; as shorthand for Soviet leadership; used to receive foreign guests under Brezhnev; ‘Kremlin ration’; opens up under Gorbachev