Bidspirit auction | Knyazkov S. From the past

Knyazkov S. From the past of the Russian land. Part two: the Time of Peter the Great. - M. Tipografiya t-VA I. D. Sytin. 1909 691 p., Fig. Hardcover, size 14.5 x 211 cm. Very good - excellent condition, scuffed binding Princes Sergei Alexandrovich (1873 - 1919), historian and archivist. A prominent Russian historian, author of major works on the history of Moscow Russia and the Peter the great era. He served as an official in the state and St. Petersburg archives of the Ministry of foreign Affairs from 1910. Published in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Rostov-on-don. Shot by the Bolsheviks in September 1919 in Moscow. Russian Russian historian Sergey Alexandrovich Knyazkov's main work ”From the past of the Russian land” consists of two parts that tell about all stages of Russian history from ancient times up to the era of Peter the Great with its numerous transformations. The second part of the work ”the Time of Peter the Great” is the author's fundamental work on the history of Russia in the reign of Peter the Great. The book describes the main spheres of life of the state and society of the late XVII – first quarter of the XVIII centuries. It tells about industry and trade, the judicial system, financial reforms, the situation of the nobility, the peasantry, the urban class, the social life of St. Petersburg, the development of the ideology of the old believers, discontent in society with Peter's reforms, etc. The course of the Northern war, the state of the armed forces, their modernization, and the creation of the fleet are considered. The publication is richly illustrated.