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The Volga Countryside in Revolution, 1917 – 1921
 
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The Russian Revolution, 1891 – 1924
 
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The Language and Symbols of 1917
(with Boris Kolonitskii)
 
Natasha’s Dance:
A Cultural History of Russia
 
The Whisperers:
Private Life in Stalin’s Russia
 
ABBREVIATIONS
 
 
AN
Archives nationales, Paris
BLMD
British Library Manuscripts Division, London
BLO
Bodleian Library Special Collections, Oxford
BOA
Basbakanlik Osmanlik Archive, Istanbul
FO
National Archive, London, Foreign Office
GARF
State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow
IRL
Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg
NAM
National Army Museum, London
RA
Royal Archives, Windsor
RGADA
Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, Moscow
RGAVMF
Russian State Archive of the Military Naval Fleet, St Petersburg
RGB
Russian State Library, Manuscripts Division, St Petersburg
RGIA
Russian State Historical Archive, St Petersburg
RGVIA
Russian State Military History Archive, Moscow
SHD
Service historique de la Défense, Vincennes
WO
National Archive, London, War Office
 
 
INTRODUCTION
 
1
L. Liashuk,
Ofitsery chernomorskogo flota pogubshie pri zashchite Sevastopolia v 1854–1855 gg.
(Simferopol, 2005); G. Arnold,
Historical Dictionary of the Crimean War
(London, 2002), pp. 38–9.
 
2
Losses of Life in Modern Wars: Austria-Hungary; France
(Oxford, 1916), p. 142;
Histoire militaire de la France
, 4 vols. (Paris, 1992), vol. 2, p. 514; D. Murphy,
Ireland and the Crimean War
(Dublin, 2002), p. 104. The best recent survey of allied effectives and casualties is T. Margrave, ‘Numbers & Losses in the Crimea: An Introduction’,
War Correspondent
, 21/1 (2003), pp. 30–32; 21/2 (2003), pp. 32–6; 21/3 (2003), pp. 18–22.
3
J. Herbé,
Français et russes en Crimée: Lettres d’un officier français à sa famille pendant la campagne d’Orient
(Paris, 1892), p. 337; A. Khrushchev,
Istoriia oborony Sevastopolia
(St Petersburg, 1889), pp. 157–8.
CHAPTER 1. RELIGIOUS WARS
 
1
FO 78/446, Finn to Aberdeen, 27 May 1846; 78/705 Finn to Palmerston, 5 Apr. 1847; H. Martineau,
Eastern Life
:
Present and Past
, 3 vols. (London, 1848), vol. 3, pp. 162–5.
 
2
Ibid., pp. 120–21.
3
FO 78/368, Young to Palmerston, 14 Mar. 1839.
4
Quoted in D. Hopwood,
The Russian Presence in Palestine and Syria, 1843–1914: Church and Politics in the Near East
(Oxford, 1969), p. 9.
5
A. Kinglake,
The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan
, 8 vols. (London, 1863), vol. 1, pp. 42–3; N. Shepherd,
The Zealous Intruders: The Western Rediscovery of Palestine
(London, 1987), p. 23; Martineau,
Eastern Life
, vol. 3, p. 124; R. Curzon,
Visits to Monasteries in the Levant
(London, 1849), p. 209.
6
FO 78/413, Young to Palmerston, 29 Jan. and 28 Apr. 1840; 78/368, Young to Palmerston, 14 Mar. and 21 Oct. 1839.
7
R. Marlin,
L’Opinion franc-comtoise devant la guerre de Crimée
, Annales Littéraires de l’Université de Besançon, vol. 17 (Paris, 1957), p. 23.
8
E. Finn (ed.),
Stirring Times, or, Records from Jerusalem Consular Chronicles of 1853 to 1856
, 2 vols. (London, 1878), vol. 1, pp. 57–8, 76.
9
FO 78/705, Finn to Palmerston, 2 Dec. 1847.
10
On the various interpretations of the treaty, see R. H. Davison,
Essays in Ottoman and Turkish History, 1774–1923: The Impact of the West
(Austin, Tex., 1990), pp. 29–37.
11
Mémoires du duc De Persigny
(Paris, 1896), p. 225; L. Thouvenal,
Nicolas Ier et Napoléon III: Les préliminaires de la guerre de Crimée 1852–1854
(Paris, 1891), pp. 7–8, 14–16, 59.
12
A. Gouttman,
La Guerre de Crimée 1853–1856
(Paris, 1995), p. 69; D. Goldfrank,
The Origins of the Crimean War
(London, 1995), pp. 76, 82–3;
Correspondence Respecting the Rights and Privileges of the Latin and Greek Churches in Turkey
, 2 vols. (London, 1854–6), vol. 1, pp. 17–18.
13
A. Ubicini,
Letters on Turkey
, trans. Lady Easthope, 2 vols. (London, 1856), vol. 1, pp. 18–22.
14
S. Montefiore,
Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin
(London, 2000), pp. 244–5.
15
W. Reddaway,
Documents of Catherine the Great
(Cambridge, 1931), p. 147;
Correspondence artistique de Grimm avec Cathérine II
, Archives de l’art français, nouvelle période, 17 (Paris, 1932), pp. 61–2;
The Life of Catherine II, Empress of Russia
, 3 vols. (London, 1798), vol. 3, p. 211;
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great
(New York, 1955), p. 378.
16
Davison,
Essays in Ottoman and Turkish History
, p. 37; H. Ragsdale, ‘Russian Projects of Conquest in the Eighteenth Century’, in id. (ed.),
Imperial Russian Foreign Policy
(Cambridge, 1993), pp. 83–5; V. Aksan,
Ottoman Wars 1700–1870: An Empire Besieged
(London, 2007), pp. 160–61.
17
Montefiore,
Prince of Princes
, pp. 274–5.
18
Ibid., pp. 246–8.
19
G. Jewsbury,
The Russian Annexation of Bessarabia: 1774–1828. A Study of Imperial Expansion
(New York, 1976), pp. 66–72, 88.
20
M. Gammer,
Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnya and Dagestan
(London, 1994), p. 44; J. McCarthy,
Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims 1821–1922
(Princeton, 1995), pp. 30–32.
21
M. Kozelsky, ‘Introduction’, unpublished MS.
22
K. O’Neill, ‘Between Subversion and Submission: The Integration of the Crimean Khanate into the Russian Empire, 1783–1853’, Ph.D. diss., Harvard, 2006, pp. 39, 52–60, 181; A. Fisher,
The Russian Annexation of the Crimea, 1772–1783
(Cambridge, 1970), pp. 144–6; M. Kozelsky, ‘Forced Migration or Voluntary Exodus? Evolution of State Policy toward Crimean Tatars during the Crimean War’, unpublished paper; B. Williams, ‘Hijra and Forced Migration from Nineteenth-Century Russia to the Ottoman Empire’,
Cahiers du monde russe
, 41/1 (2000), pp. 79–108; M. Pinson, ‘Russian Policy and the Emigration of the Crimean Tatars to the Ottoman Empire, 1854–1862’,
Güney-Dogu Avrupa Arastirmalari Dergisi
, 1 (1972), pp. 38–41.
23
A. Schönle, ‘Garden of the Empire: Catherine’s Appropriation of the Crimea’,
Slavic Review
, 60/1 (Spring 2001), pp. 1–23; K. O’Neill, ‘Constructing Russian Identity in the Imperial Borderland: Architecture, Islam, and the Transformation of the Crimean Landscape’,
Ab Imperio
, 2 (2006), pp. 163–91.
24
M. Kozelsky,
Christianizing Crimea: Shaping Sacred Space in the Russian Empire and Beyond
(De Kalb, Ill., 2010), chap. 3; id., ‘Ruins into Relics: The Monument to Saint Vladimir on the Excavations of Chersonesos, 1827–57’,
Russian Review
, 63/4 (Oct. 2004), pp. 655–72.
CHAPTER 2. EASTERN QUESTIONS
 
1
R. Nelson,
Hagia Sophia, 1850–1950: Holy Wisdom Modern Monument
(Chicago, 2004), pp. 29–30.
 
2
Ibid., p. 30.
3
N. Teriatnikov,
Mosaics of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul: The Fossati Restoration and the Work of the Byzantine Institute
(Washington, 1998), p. 3;
The Russian Primary Chronicle: Laurentian Text
, trans. S. Cross and O. Sherbowitz-Wetzor (Cambridge, Mass., 1953), p. 111.
4
T. Stavrou, ‘Russian Policy in Constantinople and Mount Athos in the Nineteenth Century’, in L. Clucas (ed.),
The Byzantine Legacy in Eastern Europe
(New York, 1988), p. 225.
5
Nelson,
Hagia Sophia
, p. 33.
6
A. Ubicini,
Letters on Turkey
, trans. Lady Easthope, 2 vols. (London, 1856), vol. 1, pp. 18–22.
7
D. Hopwood,
The Russian Presence in Palestine and Syria, 1843–1914: Church and Politics in the Near East
(Oxford, 1969), p. 29.
8
S. Pavlowitch,
Anglo-Russian Rivalry in Serbia, 1837–39
(Paris, 1961), p. 72; B. Lewis,
The Emergence of Modern Turkey
(Oxford, 2002), p. 31.
9
F. Bailey,
British Policy and the Turkish Reform Movement, 1826–1853
(London, 1942), pp. 19–22; D. Ralston,
Importing the European Army: The Introduction of European Military Techniques and Institutions into the Extra-European World, 1600–1914
(Chicago, 1990), pp. 62–3.
10
W. Miller,
The Ottoman Empire, 1801–1913
(Cambridge, 1913), p. 18.
11
V. Aksan,
Ottoman Wars 1700–1870: An Empire Besieged
(London, 2007), p. 49.
12
D. Goldfrank,
The Origins of the Crimean War
(London, 1995), pp. 41–2.
13
A. Bitis,
Russia and the Eastern Question: Army, Government and Society, 1815–1833
(Oxford, 2006), pp. 33–4, 101–4; Aksan,
Ottoman Wars
, pp. 290–96; T. Prousis,
Russian Society and the Greek Revolution
(De Kalb, Ill., 1994), pp. 31, 50–51.
14
A. Zaionchkovskii,
Vostochnaia voina 1853–1856
, 3 vols. (St Petersburg, 2002), vol. 1, pp. 8, 19; L. Vyskochkov,
Imperator Nikolai I: Chelovek i gosudar
’ (St Petersburg, 2001), p. 141; M. Gershenzon,
Epokha Nikolaia I
(Moscow, 1911), pp. 21–2.
15
A. Tiutcheva,
Pri dvore dvukh imperatov: Vospominaniia, dnevnik, 1853–1882
(Moscow, 1928–9), pp. 96–7.
16
R. Wortman,
Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy
, vol. 1:
From Peter the Great to the Death of Nicholas I
(Princeton, 1995), p. 382; D. Goldfrank, ‘The Holy Sepulcher and the Origin of the Crimean War’, in E. Lohr and M. Poe (eds.),
The Military and Society in Russia: 1450–1917
(Leiden, 2002), pp. 502–3.
17
Bitis,
Russia and the Eastern Question
, pp. 167–76.
18
Ibid., p. 187.
19
Aksan,
Ottoman Wars
, pp. 346–52.
20
P. Schroeder,
The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848
(Oxford, 1994), pp. 658–60.
21
A. Seaton,
The Crimean War: A Russian Chronicle
(London, 1977), p. 36.
22
Bitis,
Russia and the Eastern Question
, pp. 361–2, 366.
23
FO 97/404, Ponsonby to Palmerston, 7 July 1834; R. Florescu,
The Struggle against Russia in the Romanian Principalities 1821–1854
(Monachii, 1962), pp. 135–60.
24
F. Lawson,
The Social Origins of the Egyptian Expansionism during the Muhammad Ali Period
(New York, 1992), chap. 5; Aksan,
Ottoman Wars
, pp. 363–7; A. Marmont,
The Present State of the Turkish Empire
, trans. F. Smith (London, 1839), p. 289.
25
Bitis,
Russia and the Eastern Question
, pp. 468–9.
26
Zaionchkovskii,
Vostochnaia voina
, vol. 1, p. 235.
27
FO 181/114, Palmerston to Ponsonby, 6 Dec. 1833; P. Mosely,
Russian Diplomacy and the Opening of the Eastern Question in 1838 and 1839
(Cambridge, Mass., 1934), p. 12; Bailey,
British Policy
, p. 53.
28
L. Levi,
History of British Commerce, 1763–1870
(London, 1870), p. 562; Bailey,
British Policy
, p. 74; J. Gallagher and R. Robinson, ‘The Imperialism of Free Trade’,
Economic History Review
, 2nd ser., 6/1 (1953); FO 78/240, Ponsonby to Palmerston, 25 Nov. 1834; D. Urquhart,
England and Russia
(London, 1835), p. 110.
29
B. Kingsley Martin,
The Triumph of Lord Palmerston: A Study of Public Opinion in England before the Crimean War
(London, 1963), p. 85.
30
J. Gleason,
The Genesis of Russophobia in Great Britain
(Cambridge, Mass., 1950), p. 103.
31
Ibid., pp. 211–12, 220.
32
India, Great Britain, and Russia
(London, 1838), pp. 1–2.
33
R. Shukla,
Britain, India and the Turkish Empire, 1853–1882
(New Delhi, 1973), p. 27.
34
M. Gammer,
Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnya and Dagestan
(London, 1994), p. 121.
35
J. Pardoe,
The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1836
, 2 vols. (London, 1854), vol. 1, p. 32.
36
C. White,
Three Years in Constantinople; or, Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1844
, 3 vols. (London, 1846), p. 363. See also E. Spencer,
Travels in Circassia, Krim-Tartary, &c., including a Steam Voyage down the Danube from Vienna to Constantinople, and round the Black Sea in 1836
, 2 vols. (London, 1837).
37
Urquhart,
England and Russia
, p. 86.
38
S. Lane-Poole,
The Life of the Right Honourable Stratford Canning
, 2 vols. (London, 1888), vol. 2, p. 17.
39
Ibid., p. 104. On Freemasonry in nineteenth-century Turkey, see the many works of Paul Dumont, including ‘La Turquie dans les archives du Grand Orient de France: Les loges maçonniques d’obédience française à Istanbul du milieu du XIXe siècle à la veille de la Première Guerre Mondiale’, in J.-L. Bacqué-Grammont and P. Dumont (eds.),
Économie et société dans l’empire ottoman (fin du XVIIIe siècle–début du XXe siècle)
(Paris, 1983), pp. 171–202.
40
A. Cunningham,
Eastern Questions in the Nineteenth Century: Collected Essays
, 2 vols. (London, 1993), vol. 2, pp. 118–19.
41
B. Abu Manneh, ‘The Islamic Roots of the Gülhane Rescript’, in id.,
Studies on Islam and the Ottoman Empire in the Nineteenth Century
(Istanbul, 2001), pp. 83–4, 89.
42
FO 97/413, Stratford to Palmerston, 7 Feb. 1850; Lane-Poole,
The Life of the Right Honourable Stratford Canning
, vol. 2, p. 215.

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