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Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825
1453 Through the Reign of Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584) The Time of Troubles to the First Romanovs (1598-1682) Peter the Great and His Legacy (1682-1762) The Age of Catherine the Great (1762-1801) The Reign of Emperor Alexander I (1801-1825)

                                     

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The Reign of Emperor Alexander I (1801-1825): A Summary of Russian History
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Russia Symbol A Law-based State
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  Interior of a Kalosh cabin on Sitka Island, from:
Count Fedor Petrovich Litke [Luetke] (1797–1882)
Voyage autour du monde … dans les années 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829 [A Voyage Around the World … in the Years 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829]
Paris: Firmin Didot frères, 1835–36
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division

Fedor Litke’s circumnavigation of the globe on the sloop Seniavin was notable for its scientific and geographical discoveries, as well as for descriptions of native peoples and their ways of life. The Kaloshes of Sitka Island (Alaska) were of particular interest to Litke and to the naturalists Aleksandr Postels (1801–1871) and Friedrich Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799–1874), who provided the illustrations. In his caption for this interior scene, Kittlitz explains that the “solidity and elegance” of the yurt dwelling reflected the influence of the nearby Russian colony.