Authors: Philip Longworth
Kama river,
96
Kant, Immanuel,
326
Karachais,
256
Karasund,
263
Karmal, Babrak,
279
Kashgar,
222
Kashin, Iurii,
101
Kasianov, Mikhail,
316
Kaytaks,
94
Kazakhs, no,
159
,
174
,
175
,
187
,
216
,
235
,
244
,
248
,
272
,
298
,
325
Kazakhstan,
176
,
244
,
245
,
272
,
273
,
294
,
310
Kazan,
66
,
79
,
84
,
91
-
2
,
95
,
96
,
110
,
111
,
124
,
159
Kazan University,
216
Keith, General,
172
Kets,
134
Kexholm,
156
KGB,
239
-
40
,
274
,
290
,
292
,
296
,
304
,
311
,
314
;
see also
Cheka; Federal Security Service (FSB); NKVD
Khabarov (Siberian venturer),
226
Khalkhm-Gol,
253
Khanty
see
Ostiaks
Khazar empire, Khazars,
22
,
23
,
24
,
25
,
27
-
8
,
37
Kherson,
29
Khiva, Khivans,
158
,
173
,
174
,
216
,
217
Khmelnytsky, Bogdan,
139
,
140
,
143
,
144
Khmelnytsky, Iurii,
143
,
144
Khodorkovskii, Mikhail,
304
,
315
,
316
,
323
Khoja Kokos,
75
Khomiakov, A.S.,
220
Khovanskii, Prince Ivan,
146
,
147
Khrushchev, Nikita,
261
—
2
,
276
,
280
; rise and fall of,
268
-
71
Khvorostinin, Andrei,
112
Khyber Pass,
222
Kiev,
20
,
24
,
28
,
30
,
33
,
38
,
70
,
144
,
262
; ceded to Russia,
147
; feuds over throne of,
41
-
5
; Golden Gate erected,
43
; inhabitants forcibly Christianised,
38
-
9
; known as Riurik’s town,
24
; relative importance of,
51
-
2
; Metropolitan Peter transfers his see to Moscow,
54
; Santa Sophia cathedral in,
39
,
43
; taken by Mongols,
46
Kievan Rus,
22
,
168
,
319
; and apanage system,
41
-
3
; assaults on Constantinople,
28
-
30
,
32
; Byzantine influence on,
34
—
40
,
44
; civil war in,
45
; collapse of,
1
,
45
-
7
,
48
; demographics,
43
—
4
; development of,
27
; economic situation,
44
; and introduction of Christianity,
36
—
40
; laws and politics,
39
-
40
; princely disputes,
41
—
5
; trade and commerce,
3
3
; as Viking-Russian collaboration,
27
-
8
Kinburn,
187
Kirillov (governor of Orenburg),
175
Klein, VI.,
111
Kliazma river,
53
Kliuchevskii, Vasilii,
112
Knights of St John,
188
Knights of the Sword (Livonia),
68
,
78
,
80
,
81
,
98
,
104
Knights of the Teutonic Order (Prussia),
98
Kobyle,
81
Kohl, Helmut,
292
Kolchak, Admiral A.V.,
244
Kolomna,
63
Komi,
253
Kondratev, N.D.,
246
Koni,
245
Koniev, General,
257
Konigsberg
see
Kaliningrad
Korea, Koreans,
213
,
216
,
223
,
226
,
230
Korean Timber Company,
233
Koriaks,
161
Kosovo Albanians,
313
Kostroma river,
48
Krashennikov, Stepan,
161
Krasnovodsk,
222
Kremlin,
1
,
83
,
94
,
100
,
123
,
126
,
137
,
249
,
254
,
275
,
282
,
285
,
286
,
292
,
298
,
307
; Cathedral of the Archangel,
55
; Cathedral of the Assumption,
4
,
50
,
87
; prestige of,
279
Krenz, Egon,
291
Krivichie (early tribal association),
20
,
22
Kuban,
191
Kuchum Khan of Sibir,
97
Kudaduk, Prince,
92
Kulikovo, battle of (1380),
50
,
57
,
60
,
69
Kumukhs,
112
Kumyks,
112
Kurbskii, Prince Andrei,
100
,
101
Kuritsyn, Ivan Volk,
83
Kursk, battle of, no,
262
Kushk,
222
Kuznetsk,
251
Lacy, Marshal,
172
Lake Elton,
173
Lake Ilmen,
24
Lake Peipus,
81
Laks,
94
land reform, ownership,
211
; and possible distribution to peasants,
236
-
7
; problems concerning,
213
; and serfdom,
106
,
129
-
30
,
211
,
212
,
213
,
227
language and linguistic policy,
14
-
15
,
36
,
164
,
200
,
218
-
21
,
243
Lapps,
176
Laskaris (Byzantine migrants to Russia),
75
later Roman Empire
see
Byzantine Empire
Latvia, Latvians,
163
,
164
,
243
,
245
,
254
,
310
Lazarev, Admiral,
209
Lena river,
176
Leningrad,
25
,
256
-
7
,
259
,
268
,
296
;
see also
St Petersburg
Leo X, Pope,
85
Leskov,
198
Leslie, General Alexander,
136
,
141
Letts,
98
Levant Company,
174
Lewenhaupt, General A.L.,
154
Lezghins,
94
Ligachev, Yegor,
288
Lithuania, Lithuanians
1
,
49
,
52
,
55
,
56
,
70
,
84
,
96
,
103
,
122
,
125
,
142
,
148
,
219
,
243
,
254
,
286
,
294
,
298
,
325
; attacks on Moscow,
62
-
3
,
66
Little Ice Age: consequences of,
115
—
17
;
see also
climate
Litvinov, Maxim,
263
Liubomirski, Prince J.,
146
Livonia,
68
,
79
,
152
,
156
,
187
; war in,
97
-
9
,
104
,
106
,
108
Longworth, J.A.,
206
Louis XI,
89
Lutherans,
163
Lvov (Lviv),
140
Lysenko, Trofim,
279
Macedonia,
222
Madagascar,
157
Magnus of Denmark, King,
104
Magnus the Good,
40
Maiko, Andrei Fedorovich,
75
Majlis,
223
Makarii, Metropolitan,
100
Malmovskii, General,
257
Mallory, J.,
14
Malthus, Thomas,
227
Manchu government,
132
Mansi
see
Voguls,
273
Manstem, Field Marshal von,
257
,
258
,
262
Mansur Usherma, Sheikh,
180
Maria Theresa of Austria,
178
Maria of Tver,
70
Marina (wife of Dmitrii the Pretender no.
1
),
121
,
122
,
126
Maris
see
Cheremis
Marselis brothers,
146
Marselius of Hamburg,
90
Marx, Karl (Marxism),
228
-
9
,
239
,
261
,
271
,
278
Mary I, Queen of England,
89
Maskhadov, Asian,
309
Masurian Marshes,
154
Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary,
77
Matveyev, Boyar Artamon,
146
,
147
Maximilian, Archduke,
77
Mazepa, Ivan,
155
,
156
,
157
,
162
-
3
Mazurian,
9
Mecklenberg-Schwerin, Duke of,
156
Mediterranean,
1
,
22
,
23
,
157
,
166
,
168
,
172
,
188
,
269
Medvedev, Roy,
305
Mengli-Girei (Crimean Khan),
79
Merv,
222
Meshed,
174
Metternich, Prince Clemens,
196
Midas, King of Phrygia,
17
Middle Kazakh Horde,
175
Mikhail, Grand Prince of Tver,
73
,
74
Milan,
76