Kolomenskoe (Коломенское) is on the Moskva River outside of Moscow. Later a summer palace of the tsars, it was at this site/village that Tsar Shuiskii's forces repelled the insurgent rebels of Ivan Bolotnikov on his advance towards Moscow in late 1606. Catherine the Great demolished the wooden palace and replaced it with a stone structure that was itself later demolished. This is the main gate which dates to the reign of Tsar Aleksei in the seventeenth century. This is not one of my better photographs!
One of our students wrote: I wanted to submit these two websites from the University of Oregon for extra credit because I think that they could be helpful additional resources to the HIS 241 class. Both of these were mentioned in the Riasanovsky reading as primary texts, and so I decided to look these up read a bit.
The first is the Sobornie Ulozhenie, the supreme law code of the assembly of the land. This was mentioned a lot in chapter 16, so I thought it may be a helpful reference for other students.
http://pages.uoregon.edu/kimball/1649-Ulj.htm
The second is the Domostroi - rules for the Russian household. I just found this idea so interesting, especially in comparing the very traditional nature of early Russian culture with modern culture. This is also a resource from the University of Oregon - and I think it could be of interest to other students as it was to me.
http://pages.uoregon.edu/kimball/Pouncy.Domostroi.htm
If you want to do further reading, there is hardly anything online about the Time of Troubles (except for Wikipedia):
- Wikipedia (There are also many entries for the key figures and developments of the period.)
- lecture outline on the Time of Troubles by J. P. Sommerville
- brief sketch at Macrohistory
Here are some key books.
- S. F. Platonov, The Time of Troubles: A Historical Study of the Internal Crisis and Social Struggle in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Muscovy (1970, translated by John T. Alexander)
- Robert Crummey, Formation of Muscovy 1304-1613 (1987)
- Chester Dunning, Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty (2001)
- Maureen Perrie, Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: The False Tsars of the Time and Troubles (2002)
- Ruslan Skrynnikov, Rossiia v nachale XVII v. "Smuta" (1988)
Here is a good book review.
Chester S. L. Dunning, Review of Ruslan G. Skrynnikov, Rossiia v nachale XVII v. "Smuta" (Moscow: Mysl', 1988), Samozvantsy v Rossii v nachale XVII veka. Grigorii Otrep'ev (Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1987), Smuta v Rossii v nachale XVII v. Ivan Bolotnikov (Leningrad: Nauka,1988), The Time of Troubles: Russia in Crisis, 1604-1618 (Translated by Hugh Graham, Gulf Breeze, Florida: Academic International Press, 1988) in Russian Review, 50 (January 1991), pp. 71-81.
Minin and Pozharskii monument on Red Square in Mocow