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Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile
as "a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin'd," the Russians
waited some three centuries before their subsequent cultural
achievements - in music, art and particularly literature - achieved
widespread recognition in Britain. The essays in this stimulating
collection attest to the scope and variety of Russia's influence on
British culture. They move from the early nineteenth century - when
Byron sent his hero Don Juan to meet Catherine the Great, and an
English critic sought to come to terms with the challenge of
Pushkin - to a series of Russian-themed exhibitions at venues
including the Crystal Palace and Earls Court. The collection looks
at British encounters with Russian music, the absorption with
Dostoevskii and Chekhov, and finishes by shedding light on
Britain's engagement with Soviet film. Edited by Anthony Cross, one
of the world's foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, 'A
People Passing Rude' is essential reading for anyone with an
interest in British and Russian cultures and their complex
inter-relationship.
Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in
Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of
literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the
country. The product of years of painstaking research by one of the
world's foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, In the
Lands of the Romanovs is the realization of a major bibliographical
project that records the details of over 1200 English-language
accounts of the Russian Empire. Ranging chronologically from the
accession of Mikhail Fedorovich in 1613 to the abdication of
Nicholas II in 1917, this is the most comprehensive bibliography of
first-hand accounts of Russia ever to be published. Far more than
an inventory of accounts by travellers and tourists, Anthony
Cross's ambitious and wide-ranging work includes personal records
of residence in or visits to Russia by writers ranging from
diplomats to merchants, physicians to clergymen, gardeners to
governesses, as well as by participants in the French invasion of
1812 and in the Crimean War of 1854-56. Providing full
bibliographical details and concise but informative annotation for
each entry, this substantial bibliography will be an invaluable
tool for anyone with an interest in contacts between Russia and the
West during the centuries of Romanov rule.
Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in
Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of
literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the
country. The product of years of painstaking research by one of the
world's foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, In the
Lands of the Romanovs is the realization of a major bibliographical
project that records the details of over 1200 English-language
accounts of the Russian Empire. Ranging chronologically from the
accession of Mikhail Fedorovich in 1613 to the abdication of
Nicholas II in 1917, this is the most comprehensive bibliography of
first-hand accounts of Russia ever to be published. Far more than
an inventory of accounts by travellers and tourists, Anthony
Cross's ambitious and wide-ranging work includes personal records
of residence in or visits to Russia by writers ranging from
diplomats to merchants, physicians to clergymen, gardeners to
governesses, as well as by participants in the French invasion of
1812 and in the Crimean War of 1854-56. Providing full
bibliographical details and concise but informative annotation for
each entry, this substantial bibliography will be an invaluable
tool for anyone with an interest in contacts between Russia and the
West during the centuries of Romanov rule.
Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile
as "a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin'd," the Russians
waited some three centuries before their subsequent cultural
achievements - in music, art and particularly literature - achieved
widespread recognition in Britain. The essays in this stimulating
collection attest to the scope and variety of Russia's influence on
British culture. They move from the early nineteenth century - when
Byron sent his hero Don Juan to meet Catherine the Great, and an
English critic sought to come to terms with the challenge of
Pushkin - to a series of Russian-themed exhibitions at venues
including the Crystal Palace and Earls Court. The collection looks
at British encounters with Russian music, the absorption with
Dostoevskii and Chekhov, and finishes by shedding light on
Britain's engagement with Soviet film. Edited by Anthony Cross, one
of the world's foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, 'A
People Passing Rude' is essential reading for anyone with an
interest in British and Russian cultures and their complex
inter-relationship.
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Baptist Identities (Hardcover)
Ian M. Randall, Toivo Pilli, Anthony Cross
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Baptist Identities (Paperback)
Ian M. Randall, Toivo Pilli, Anthony Cross
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This book offers a unique and fascinating investigation into the
lives and careers of the British in eighteenth-century Russia and,
more specifically, into the development of a vibrant British
community in St Petersburg during the city's first century of
existence as the new capital of an ever-expanding Russian empire.
Based on an extremely wide use of primary sources, particularly
archival, from Britain and Russia, the book concentrates on the
activities of the British within various fields such as commerce,
the navy, the medical profession, science and technology and the
arts, and ends with a broad survey of travellers and of travel
accounts, many of them completely unknown. Also included are many
attractive and unusual illustrations which help demonstrate the
variety and character of Russia's British community.
This collection of essays includes historical and theological
studies in the sacraments from a Baptist perspective. Subjects
explored include the physical side of being spiritual, baptism, the
Lord's Supper, the church, ordination, preaching, worship,
religious liberty and the issue of disestablishment.
This book comprises fuller versions of the papers presented at the
second conference of the Association of Denominational Historical
Societies and Cognate Libraries. Scholars representative of a
number of Nonconformist traditions reflect thematically on Free
Church life and witness during the twentieth century. Among the
subjects reviewed are biblical studies, theology, worship,
evangelism and spirituality, and ecumenism. Over and above its
immediate interest, this collection will provide a marker to future
scholars and others who may wish to know how some of their
forebears assessed Nonconformity's contribution to a variety of
fields during the century leading up to Christianity's third
millennium.
Peter the Great's visit to England in January 1698 has been called "the most picturesque episode in the history of Anglo-Russian relations." This book shows how the British have responded to Peter during the past three centuries. It makes use of an extensive range of printed sources to show the reactions to his visit, his personality and his reign by contemporaries and by succeeding generations of journalists, biographers, poets and dramatists, as well as by painters and engravers.
This book offers a unique and fascinating investigation into the
lives and careers of the British in eighteenth-century Russia and,
more specifically, into the development of a vibrant British
community in St Petersburg during the city's first century of
existence as the new capital of an ever-expanding Russian empire.
Based on an extremely wide use of primary sources, particularly
archival, from Britain and Russia, the book concentrates on the
activities of the British within various fields such as commerce,
the navy, the medical profession, science and technology and the
arts, and ends with a broad survey of travellers and of travel
accounts, many of them completely unknown. Also included are many
attractive and unusual illustrations which help demonstrate the
variety and character of Russia's British community.
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