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Authors: Catherine Merridale
Platon, Metropolitan of Moscow
Plekhanov, Georgy
Pleshcheyev, Levonty
Podgorny, Nikolai
Pogodin, Mikhail
Pokrovsky Convent
Poland; Polish influence on court of False Dmitry; ambition for Russian throne; Polish troops occupy and loot the Kremlin; Treaty of Eternal Peace; as source of radical ideas; represented in film
1612
Poland-Lithuania
Politburo; Thursday meetings in Kremlin; working conditions relaxed under Brezhnev
Polotsky, Simon
Polovtsy (tribe)
Polyakov, Leonid
Polytechnical Exhibition 1872
Pomerantsev, N. N.
pomeshchiki
Pompeii, re-discovery of
Ponomarev, Lev
Poppel, Nikolaus
Poskrebyshev, Alexander
Posokhin, M. V.
Possevino, Antonio
Potanin, Vladimir
Poteshnyi Dvorets
(Palace)
Pozharsky, Dmitry
Praskoveyevka
Preobrazhenskoe
Presnya ponds
prikazy
printing presses, in Moscow
Prokopovich, Feofan
Pronsky, Mikhail
Provisional Government
Prozorovsky clan
Pskov
Pugin, Augustus
Pulci, Luigi
Pushkin, Alexander
Putin, Vladimir: dismisses corruption investigation against Yeltsins; takes over as Head of State; encourages Russian nationalism; third term of office
Quarenghi, Giacomo
Rabinovich, Mikhail
Radishchev, Alexander
railway: links Moscow and St Petersburg; terminus
Rastrelli, Francesco Bartolomeo
Ravel, Maurice
Reagan, Ronald
Red Army
Red Guards, occupy the Kremlin 1917
Red Square; space created as fire-break in 1493; begins to be called Red Square under Peter the Great; acquires current shape; statue commemorating Minin and Pozharsky erected, 1818; site of Bolshevik victims’ graves, 1917; parades; designated World Heritage Site by UNESCO
Reed, John
Rerberg, I. I.
revolution
revolution
Rhos see also Rus
Riga, Latvia
Rikhter, F. F.
Riurikid dynasty
Robespierre, Maximilien de
Roman Catholicism; and Polish ambition for the Russian throne
Romania; fall of Ceausescu
Romanov, Aleksei Mikhailovich
see
Aleksei Mikhailovich, Tsar
Romanov, Fedor Nikitich (‘Filaret’); installed as Patriarch
Romanov, Mikhail
see
Mikhail Fedorovich, Tsar
Romanov, Nikita
Romanov dynasty; accession; tercentenary celebration of accession, 1913; murder of royal family at Ekaterinburg
Rome, Italy; Capitoline Hill
Romodanovsky, Fedor
Rossi, Karl
Rossiya
(television channel)
Rostopchin, Fedor
Rublev, Andrei
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
Rumyantsev, Nikolai
Rus;
under Mongol rule
Russian Archive
(journal)
Russian Federation
Russian Orthodox Church; founded in the 10th century; separates from Constantinople; creation of the patriarchate; crisis in authority of; calendar abolished; reduction in power under Peter the Great; abolition of the patriarchate; refuses permission for sacred objects to be displayed at Paris Exposition of 1867; suppressed under the Bolsheviks; liquidation of assets by the Bolsheviks
see also
Metropolitans, Archbishops and Patriarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church
Russian Primary Chronicle
‘Russian revival’
Russo-Japanese war
Ryabtsev, Colonel
Ryabushinsky family
Ryapolovsky, Semen Ivanovich
Ryazan
Rykov, Aleksei
Rylsky, I. V.
Saburova, Alexandra
Saburova, Solomoniya
Saltykov clan
Saltykova, Praskovya
Samarkand
Samoilov, Kirill
Sapieha, Lew
Sarai (capital of the Mongol Golden Horde)
Schiller, Friedrich
Schoenebeck, Adriaan
Scriabin, Alexander
Second World War
secret police
see
Cheka; FSB; GPU; KGB
Ségur, Philippe-Paul de, Comte
Serbia
serfs: curtailed freedom under Aleksei Mikhailovich; in 19th-century Moscow; emancipation of
Sergei Aleksandrovich, Grand Duke, governor-general of Moscow
Sforza, Francesco
Shalyapin, Fedor
Sharutin, Trefil
Shatunovskaya, Lydia
Shchelkalov, Andrei
Shchukin, Sergei
Shchusev, Aleksei
Shein, Aleksei Semenovich
Shekhtel, Fedor
Sheliapina, N. S.
Sheremetev family
Sheremeteva, Elena
Shervud, Leonid
Shervud, Vladimir
Shestunov family
Shevkunov, Tikhon
Shevtsova, Lilia
shipyards, English and Dutch Peter the Great works in
Shokhin, Nikolai
Shternberg, Pavel Karlovich
Shuisky, Andrei Mikhailovich
Shuisky, Ivan Vasilevich
Shuisky, Vasily Ivanovich (Vasily IV)
see
Vasily IV, Tsar
Shuisky family
Siberia
Sibir Khanate
Siena, Italy
Sigismund III, King of Poland-Lithuania
Sitsky family
1612
(film)
Sixtus IV, Pope
Skavronska, Marta
see
Catherine I, Empress
Skopin-Shuisky, Mikhail
Skuratov, Malyuta
Skuratov, Yury
Slavs, arrival in Moscow
Smolensk; fortress; taken by the Poles; recaptured under Aleksei Mikhailovich; burns under Naopoleon’s attack
Snegirev, Ivan
Snegirev, V. F.
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Society for the Study of Russian History
Society of Lovers of the Arts
Sofiya Alekseyevna; regent (1682–9)
Sofiya Palaeologa (Palaeolog, Palaeologina)
Solari, Pietro Antonio
Solntsev, Fedor;
Antiquities of the Russian State
Solomon’s Circus
Soloviev, Sergei
Sophie Fredericke Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst, Princess
see
Catherine II, Empress of Russia (Catherine the Great)
Soviet art
Soviet film industry
Soviet Union
see
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Soviet victory parade
soviets
spying, in Stalin’s Kremlin
Sretensky Cathedral
Staden Heinrich von
Stalin, Josef; arguments over accommodation in the Kremlin; Five-Year Plan for industry and agriculture; destruction of religious buildings in Moscow; transformation of the Kremlin; paranoia over personal safety; leadership style; spy network; and suicide of Nadezhda Allilueva; and Kremlin Affair; remains in Kremlin during Second World War; death; legacy; Moscow’s landmark towers; discredited by Gorbachev
Stalin, Nadezhda Allilueva; death of
Stalin, Svetlana Allilueva
Stalingrad
Stanislavsky, Konstantin
Staraya Moskva
Stein, Gertrude
Steinbeck, John
Stelletskii, I.
Stravinsky, Igor,
The Rite of Spring
streltsy;
abolition of; tortured and killed under Peter the Great
Stroganov dynasty
style moderne
Sukharev Tower
Sukhov, D. P.
Suslov, Mikhail
Suzdal
Sverdlov, Yakov
Sverdlovsk (formerly Ekaterinburg)
Sweden; seizes Novgorod, 1609; Peter the Great forms alliance against; defeated by Russia at Poltava, 1709; Peter the Great signs Peace of Nystad; collections of Russian icons
swimming pool, public, commissioned by Khrushchev
Switzerland
Sylvester the monk
Synod Choir
Sytin, Petr Vasilevich
Taler, John
Tamerlane
Taruskin, Richard
Tatars
Tatishchev, Vladimir
Tatlin, Vladimir
T chaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
Telepnev-Obolensky, Ivan Ovchina
Terem Palace
terrorism
textile production, in Moscow
Thatcher, Margaret
Theophanes the Greek
Thirty Years War
Tikhon, Patriarch
Till, Karolina
Time of Troubles
Times
(newspaper)
Tmutorokan (Black Sea port)
Tokhtamysh (Mongol leader)
Tokmakov,
Historical Description of Every Coronation of the Russian Tsars
Tolbuzin, Semen
Tolstoy, Lev;
Anna Karenina
Tomsky, Mikhail
Ton, Konstantin; Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
torture: under Ivan the Terrible; under Boris Godunov; abolition of, by Fedor Alekseyevich; under Peter the Great
Tovstukha, Ivan
trade-union movement; Kremlin staff form union
Trakhaniot, Yury
Trakhaniotov, Petr
Tremer, Eduard
Trepov, Dmitry Fedorovich
Tretyakov, Pavel
Tretyakov, S. N.
Tretyakov dynasty
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Trinity-St Sergius Monastery
Trotskaya, Natalia Sedova
Trotsky, Leon; and Brest-Litovsk treaty; founds the Red Army
Trubetskoi, Dmitry
Trubetskoi palace
Trutovsky, V. K.
Tsaritsyno
Tsars of Russia: Ivan I, ‘Kalita’; Ivan III; Ivan IV (‘the Terrible’); Fedor I Ivanovich; Boris Godunov; Fedor II Borisovich; ‘False Dmitry’; Vasily Shuisky; Mikhail Fedorovich; Aleksei Mikhailovich; Fedor Alekseyevich; Peter I, (Peter the Great); Catherine I; Elizabeth; Peter III; Catherine II (Catherine the Great); Paul I; Alexander I; Nicholas I; Alexander II; Alexander III; Nicholas II
Tula
Turgenev, Ivan
Turks, and fur trade
Turover, Felipe
Tver; rebuilt in European style
Ugudey (son of Genghis Khan)
Ukhtomsky, Dmitry Vasilyevich; architecture school
Ukraine; vote for independence
underground railway (metro)
UNESCO: designates Kremlin World Heritage Site; protests about about building work in the Kremlin
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR): Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; civil war; Stalin’s Five-Year Plan; and Second World War; shoots down Korean airliner; war in Afghanistan; Congress of People’s Deputies; break up of; Soviet legacy
United States of America: donate aid in famine; Hillwood collection, of Russian icons Washington; warns Gorbachev of coup
The Unknown History of Russia1945–2006,
school textbook
Upper Trading Rows (GUM)
Ushakov, Simon;
The Tree of the State of Muscovy