Foreigners in Muscovy: Western Immigrants in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Russia Dreher Simon
Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries, the State of Muscovy emerged from being a rather homogenous Russian-speaking and Orthodox medieval principality to becoming a multi-ethnic…
Specifikacia Foreigners in Muscovy: Western Immigrants in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Russia Dreher Simon
Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries, the State of Muscovy emerged from being a rather homogenous Russian-speaking and Orthodox medieval principality to becoming a multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire. Not only the conquest of the neighbouring Tatar Khanates and the colonization of Siberia demanded the integration of non-Christian populations into the Russian state. The ethnic composition of the capital and Muscovite towns also changed due to Muscovite policies of recruiting soldiers, officers and specialists from various European countries, as well as the accommodation of merchants and the resettlement of war prisoners and civilians from annexed territories. The presence of foreign immigrants was accompanied by controversy and conflicts, which demanded adaptations not only in the Muscovite legal, fiscal and economic systems, but also in the everyday life of