Paul Bushkovitch has been Professor of History at Yale University since 1992, having taught there since 1975. His books include The Merchants of Moscow, 1580-1650 (Cambridge, 1980) and Religion and Society in Russia: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1992).
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Prologue: court politics and reform
1. Tsar and boyars: structures and values
2. The ascendancy of Artamon Matveev, 1671-6
3. The reign of Tsar Fyodor, 1676-82
4. The regency of Sofia, 1682-9
5. Peter in power, 1689-99
6. Peter and the favourites: Golovin and Menshikov, 1699-1706
7. Poltava and the new gubernias, 1707-9
8. The Senate and the eclipse of Menshikov, 1709-15
9. The affair of the tsarevich, 1715-17
10. The end of Aleksei Petrovich, 1718
Epilogue and conclusion, 1718-25
Bibliography
Index.
