Kees Boterbloem

Russia and the Dutch Republic, 1566-1725

A Forgotten Friendship

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the close cultural, economic, and military relationship between the Russian Empire and the Netherlands in the early modern period. The author argues that the Netherlands had an outsized impact on Russia's early development into a powerful state.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9781793648600
• ISBN-10: 1793648603
• Artikelnr.: 67197417

Autorenporträt

By Kees Boterbloem

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Jordan E. Kurland, 1928-2016, Stuart M. Kurland
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Prehistory of Dutch-Russian Relations; the English Pioneers
Chapter 2: Flemish Trailblazers
Chapter 3: New States on Europe's Fringe
Chapter 4: De Vogelaer and Van Klenck
Chapter 5: The Russian and Dutch Other
Chapter 6: Diplomatic Ties
Chapter 7: Isaac Massa
Chapter 8: Business Opportunities
Chapter 9: Guns and Grain
Chapter 10: Medicine
Chapter 11: Dutch Entrepreneurs
Chapter 12: Pivot: Boreel's Embassy
Chapter 13: Dutch Mercenaries in the Tsar's Service
Chapter 14: The Western Sloboda
Chapter 15: The New Commercial Statute of 1667
Chapter 16: Envoys
Chapter 17: The Oryol
Chapter 18: Becoming Russian?
Chapter 19: Koenraad van Klenck's Embassy
Chapter 20: The Interregnum, 1676-1689
Chapter 21: Peter the Great
Chapter 22: Patrick Gordon and François Lefort
Chapter 23: Russians in the Republic
Chapter 24: A Final Blaze of Business: Lups and Brants
Chapter 25: Cornelis Cruys and the Russian Exchange Students
Chapter 26: An Era Closes: The Eighteenth Century