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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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Russia's Globalization:
A Key

Events marked Russia Symbol are specific to Muscovy/Russia's internal development.
Those marked World Symbol are important world historical or cultural events.
Engagement Symbol indicates specific points of sociocultural or military engagement between Muscovy/Russia and foreign powers or individuals.


Russia Symbol   Burdens of Engagement
    Burdens of Engagement
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Engagement Symbol   Russians Visit the South Pacific
    Russians Visit the South Pacific
NYPL, General Research Division
Engagement Symbol   France Capitulates
    France Capitulates
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division

Engagement Symbol   Russia’s “Hordes” Take Paris
    Russia’s “Hordes” Take Paris
NYPL, Spencer Collection
Engagement Symbol   A Romantic English View of the “Northern Venice”
    A Romantic English View of the “Northern Venice”
NYPL, General Research Division
Engagement Symbol   Napoleon’s Nightmare
    Napoleon’s Nightmare
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division
Napoleon’s Nightmare
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Engagement Symbol   Napoleon’s Nightmare 

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borck
Napoleon’s erster Traum in Moskwa [Napoleon’s First Dream in Moscow]
St. Petersburg: I. Glasunow, 1812
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division (originally in the collections of the Great Catherine Palace, Tsarskoe Selo)

Published in the immediate aftermath or perhaps even during the time of the French retreat, the engraved and colored frontispiece of this collection of commemorative poems depicts Napoleon waking to discover that his nightmare has become reality. Father Time draws back a curtain to reveal Moscow – intended as a place to comfortably billet and provision troops during the Russian winter – as an inferno, probably torched by its own inhabitants.