Peter the Great and the West: New Perspectives

List of Tables, Maps and Illustrations List of Abbreviations Note on Transliteration and Proper Names List of Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: OPENING ADDRESS The Old Man from Cambridge, Mrs Cross, and Other Anglo-Petrine Matters of Due Weight and Substance; A.Cross PART II: THE REFORMS IN CONTEXT The Petrine Reforms and their Impact; A.Kamenskii Administrative Reforms in the Russian Empire: Western Models and Russian Implementation; A.Medushevskii PART III: PETER AND BRITAIN Changing Perspectives: British Views of Russia from the Grand Embassy to the Peace of Nystad; J.Hartley Diligent and Faithful Servant: Peter the Great's Apprentices in England; J.Lane Peter the Great: the Scottish Dimension; D.Fedosov PART IV: MARITIME HISTORY British Merchants and Russian Men-of-War: the Rise of the Russian Baltic Fleet; R.Warner State, Navy and the Origin of the Petrine Forest Cadastral Survey; A.Karimov Peter the Great and English Maritime Technology; W.F. Ryan PART V: DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY HISTORY Peter the Great and the Conquest of Azov: 1695-96; G.Herd Peter the Great and the Baltic; D.Kirby Why St Petersburg?; R.E.Jones Seven Years with Peter the Great: the Dutchman Jacob de Bie's Observations; T.Eckman PART VI: THE COURT AND THE ARTS Catherine I, her Court and Courtiers; J.Alexander Images of Greatness: Portraits of Peter I; L.Hughes Index