Bibliography of Russian history (1613–1917)

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This is a select bibliography of post World War II English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the history of Russia and its empire from 1613 until 1917. It specifically excludes topics related to the downfall of the Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution; see Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War for information on these subjects.

Book entries may have references to reviews published in academic journals or major newspapers when these could be considered helpful.

Works included are referenced positively in the notes or bibliographies of scholarly secondary sources or journals. Included works should either be published by an academic or widely distributed publisher, be authored by a notable subject matter expert, or have significant scholarly journal reviews. This list specifically excludes unpublished and self published works and works published without or with minimal editorial oversight.

Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below; see Further Reading for several book and chapter length bibliographies. The External Links section contains entries for publicly available select bibliographies from universities.

A limited number of English translations of significant primary sources are included along with references to larger archival collections.

This bibliography uses APA style citations.

General works[]

General works on Russian history which have significant content about pre-1917 history.

• Billington, J. (2010). The Icon and Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture. New York: Vintage.^[1]
• Blum, J. (1971). Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.^[2][3]
• Bogatyrev, S. (Ed.). (2004). Russia Takes Shape. Patterns of Integration from the Middle Ages to the Present. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.^[4][5]
• Bushkovitch, P. (2011). A Concise History of Russia (Illustrated edition). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^[6][7]
• Cherniavsky, M. (Ed.). (1970). The Structure of Russian History: Interpretive Essays. New York, NY: Random House.
• Christian, D. (1998). A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia (2 vols.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.^{[8][9][10][11]}
• Connolly, R. (2020). The Russian Economy: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Freeze, G. L. (2009). Russia: A History (Revised edition). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Forsyth, J. (1992). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia’s North Asian Colony 1581–1990. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^[12][13]
• Grousset, R. (1970). The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia (N. Walford, Trans.). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.^[14]
• Lieven, D., Perrie, M., & Suny, R. (Eds.). (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia (3 vols.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^[a]
• Pipes, R. (1974). Russia Under the Old Regime. New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons.^{[15][16][17][18]}
• Riasanovsky, N. V. (2018). A History of Russia (9th edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Shubin, D. H. (2005). A History of Russian Christianity (4 vols.). New York: Agathon Press
• Thompson, J. M., & Ward, C. J. (2017). Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus’ to the Present (8th edition). London, UK: Routledge.

Period works[]

• Anisimov, E. V. (2004). Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia. New York: Praeger.^[19][20][21]
• Baron, S. (1988). The Jews under Tsars and Soviets. New York: Schocken Books.
• Beer, D. (2016). The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars. London: Vintage.^[22]
• Erickson, M., & Erickson L. (Eds.). (2005). Russia: War, Peace and Diplomacy: Essays in Honour of John Erickson. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.^[23]
• Fuller, Jr. W. C. (1992). Strategy and Power in Russia, 1600–1914. New York: Free Press.^[24][25]
• Hellie, R. (2005). The Structure of Russian Imperial History. History and Theory, 44(4), 88–112.
• Hosking, G. (1997). Russia: People and Empire, 1552–1917. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.^{[26][27][28][29]}
• Hughes, L. (2008). The Romanovs: Ruling Russia 1613–1917. New York: Bloomsbury.^{[30][31][32][33]}
• Khodarkovsky, M. Of Christianity, Enlightenment, and Colonialism: Russia in the North Caucasus, 1500–1800. Journal of Modern History, 71(1999), 394–430.
• Kleimola, A. M. (1979). Up Through Servitude: The Changing Condition of the Muscovite Elite in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Russian History, 6(2), 210–229.
• LeDonne, J. P. (1991). Absolutism and Ruling Class: The Formation of the Russian Political Order, 1700–1825. Oxford: Oxford University Press.^{[34][35][36][37]}
• Lieven, D. (1989). Russia’s Rulers under the Old Regime. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.^[38][39][40]
• Lincoln, W. B. (1997). Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of a Thousand Years of Artistic Life in Russia. New York: Viking.
• Lincoln, W. B. (1981). The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias. New York: Doubleday.^[41][42]
• Lincoln, W. B. (2001). Sunlight at Midnight: St Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.^[43][44][45]
• Mironov, B. N., & Eklof, B. (2000). The Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700–1917 (2 vols.). , Oxfordshire, UK: Westview Press.^[46]
• Montefiore, S. (2017). Romanovs: 1613–1918, New York: Vintage.^[47]
• Seton-Watson, H. (1967). The Russian Empire 1801–1917 (Oxford History of Modern Europe). Oxford: Oxford University Press.^{[48][49][50][51]}

Topical works[]

• Alexander, J. T. (1969). Autocratic Politics in a National Crisis: The Imperial Russian Government and Pugachev’s Revolt 1773–1775. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.^{[52][53][54][55]}
• Anisimov, E. V. (1993). The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress through Coercion in Russia. New York: Routledge.^{[56][57][58][59]}
• Ascher, A. P. A. (2001). Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.^[60][61][62]
• Beer, D. (2013). Decembrists, Rebels, and Martyrs in Siberian Exile: The “Zerentui Conspiracy” of 1828 and the Fashioning of a Revolutionary Genealogy. Slavic Review, 72(3), 528–551.
• Crummey, R. O. (1983). Aristocrats and Servitors: The Boyar Elite, 1613–89. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.^[63][64][65]
• Daly, J. W. (1997). Autocracy under Siege: Security Police and Opposition in Russia 1866–1905. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.^{[66][67][68][69]}
• Daly, J. W. (2004). The Watchful State 1906–17: Security Police and Opposition in Russia. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.
• Dunning, C. S. L. (2001). Russia’s First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press.^[70][71][72]
• Eklof, B. Bushnell, J., & Zakharova, L. (Eds.). (1994). Russia’s Great Reforms, 1855–1881. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.^[73][74][75]
• Emmons, T. (2014). The Formation of Political Parties and the First National Elections in Russia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.^[76][77][78]
• Fuller, Jr. W. C. (2006). The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason and the End of Imperial Russia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.^[79][80]
• Hughes, L. (1997). Russia in the Age of Peter the Great. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.^[81][82][83]
• Kates, G. (2001). Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade. New York: Basic Books.^[84][85]
• Kelly, L. (2006). Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia’s Mission to the Shah of Persia. New York: I.B. Tauris.^[86][87]
• Kleimola, A. (1979). Up Through Servitude: The Changing Condition of the Muscovite Elite in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Russian History, 6(2), 210–229.
• LeDonne, J. P. (1984). Ruling Russia: Politics and Administration in the Age of Absolutism 1762–96. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.^[88][89][90]
• Levin, E. (2014). A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel. New York: Knopf Doubleday/Schocken Books.
• Lewitter, L. (1958). Peter the Great, Poland, and the Westernization of Russia. Journal of the History of Ideas, 19(4), 493–506.
• Lincoln, W. B. (1990). The Great Reforms: Autocracy, Bureaucracy, and the Politics of Change in Imperial Russia. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.^[91][92][93]
• Lincoln, W. B. (1982). In the Vanguard of Reform: Russia’s Enlightened Bureaucrats. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.^[94][95]
• Lincoln, W. B. (1983). In War’s Dark Shadow: The Russians before the Great War. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.^[96][97]
• McDonald, E., & McDonald, D. (2011). Fanny Lear: Love and Scandal in Tsarist Russia. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
• Madariaga, I. de, (1981). Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.^[98][99]
• Manning, R. (1982). The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government. Princeton: Princeton University Press.^{[100][101][102]}
• Mazour, R. J. (1937). The First Russian Revolution, 1825: The Decembrist Movement, its Origins, Development, and Significance . Berkeley: University of California Press.^{[103][104][105]}
• Merridale, C. (2013). Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia’s History. London: Penguin.^[106]
• Perrie, M. (2002). Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: The False Tsars of the Time of Troubles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^{[107][108][109]}
• Pflaum, R. (1968). The Emperor’s Talisman: The Life of the Duc de Morny. New York: Meredith Press.
• Ransel, D. L. (1975). The Politics of Catherinian Russia: The Panin Party. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.^{[110][111][112]}
• Saul, N. E. (1970). Russia and the Mediterranean, 1797–1807. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.^[113][114]
• Sumner, B. H. (1962). Russia and the Balkans 1870–1880. Hamden, CT: Archon Books.^{[115][116][117]}
• Venturi, F. (1960). Roots of Revolution: A History of the Populist and Socialist Movements in Nineteenth Century Russia (F. Haskell, Trans.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf.^[118][119]
• Vitale, S. (1997). Pushkin’s Button. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux.^[120]
• Walicki, A. (1975). The Slavophile Controversy: History of a Conservative Utopia in Nineteenth-century Russian Thought. (H. Andrews-Rusiecka, Trans.) Oxford: Oxford University Press.^[121][122]

Fall of the Romanovs[]

• King, G., & Wilson, P. (2005). The Fate of the Romanovs. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
• Rappaport, H. (2008). Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs. London: St Martins Press.
• Steinberg, M. D., & Khrustalëv, V. M. (1997). The Fall of the Romanovs. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Economics[]

• Kahan, A. (1985). Plow, the Hammer, and the Knout: An Economic History of Eighteenth-Century Russia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.^{[123][124][125][126]}
• Kahan, A. (1989). Russian Economic History: The Nineteenth Century. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.^{[127][128][129]}

Empire[]

• Becker, S. (2004). Russia’s Protectorates in Central Asia: Bukhara and Khiva, 1865–1924. London: Routledge.^{[130][131][132]}
• Bobroff, R. P. (2006). Roads to Glory: Late Imperial Russia and the Turkish Straits. London: I.B.Tauris.^{[133][134][135]}
• Figes, O. (2010). Crimea. London: Metropolitan Books.
• Fisher, A. W. (1970). The Russian Annexation of the Crimea 1772–1783. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^{[136][137][138]}
• Gammer, M. (1994). Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan. London: Routledge.^{[139][140][141]}
• Geyer, D. (1987). Russian Imperialism: The Interaction of Domestic and Foreign Policy 1860–1914. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.^{[142][143][144]}
• Hosking, G. (1997). Russia: People and Empire, 1552–1917. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.^{[145][146][147]}
• Khodarkovsky, M. (1992). Where Two Worlds Met: The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600–1771. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.^{[148][149][150]}
• Khodarkovsky, M. (2002). Russia’s Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500–1800. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.^{[151][152][153]}
• Kappeler, A. (2001). The Russian Empire: A Multiethnic History (A. Clayton, trans.). Harlow: Longman.
• LeDonne, J. P. (1997). The Russian Empire and the World 1700–1917: The Geopolitics of Expansion and Containment, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Mosse, W. E. (1963). The Rise and Fall of the Crimean System 1855–71: The Story of a Peace Settlement. New York: Macmillan.^{[154][155][156][157]}
• Rywkin, M. (ed.). (1988). Russian Colonial Expansion to 1917. London: Mansell Publishing.^{[158][159][160]}

Religion[]

• Baron, S. (1988). The Jews under Tsars and Soviets. New York: Schocken Books.
• Zitser, E. A. (2004). The Transfigured Kingdom: Sacred Parody and Charismatic Authority at the Court of Peter the Great. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.^[161][162]

Women and family[]

• Kates, G. (2001). Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade. New York: Basic Books.^[163][164]
• Marrese, M. L. (2002). A Woman's Kingdom: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700–1861. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.^[165][166]
• Martin, R. E. (2012). A Bride for the Tsar: Brideshows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.
• McDonald, E., & McDonald, D. (2011). Fanny Lear: Love and Scandal in Tsarist Russia, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Culture[]

• Cracraft, J. (1988). The Petrine Revolution in Russian Architecture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.^{[167][168][169]}
• Cracraft, J. (1997). The Petrine Revolution in Russian Imagery. Chicago University of Chicago Press.^{[170][171][172]}
• Cracraft, J. (2004). The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.^{[173][174][175]}
• Wortman, R. S. (2006). Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.^{[176][177][178]}
• Ritzarev, M. (2006). Eighteenth-Century Russian Music. London: Routledge.^{[179][180][181]}

Other[]

• Cross, A. C. (1997). By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-Century Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^{[182][183][184]}
• King, G. (2006). The Court of the Last Tsar: Pomp, Power and Pageantry in the Reign of Nicholas II. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
• Raeff, M. (1983). The Well-Ordered Police State: Social and Institutional Change Through Law in the Germanies and Russia, 1600–1800. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.^{[185][186][187]}

Military and conflicts[]

• Blanch, L. (1960). The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus. New York: Viking Press.
• Donnelly, A. (1968). The Russian Conquest of Bashkiria 1552–1740. Yale University.^{[188][189][190]}
• Duffy, C. (1981). Russia’s Military Way to the West: Origins and Nature of Russian Military Power 1700–1800. London: Routledge.^[191][192]
• Englund, P. (2012). The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire. London: I.B. Tauris.
• Frost, R. I., (2000). The Northern Wars, 1558–1721. London: Longman.^[193]
• Marshall, A. (2006). Russian General Staff 1860–1917. London: Routledge.
• Menning, B. (1992). Bayonets before Bullets: The Imperial Russian Army, 1861–1914. Bloomington, IN: Indian University Press.^[194][195]
• Rich, D. A. (1997). The Tsar’s Colonels: Professionalism, Strategy, and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.^{[196][197][198]}
• Schönle, A. (2001). Garden of the Empire: Catherine's Appropriation of the Crimea. Slavic Review, 60(1), 1-23.

Russia and Napoleon[]

• Lieven, D. (2010). Russia against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace. New York: Penguin Books.^[199]
• Zamoyski, A. (2012). 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow. New York: Harper Press.^[200]

The Russo-Japanese War[]

Russia during World War I[]

Biographies[]

• Hughes, L. (2008). The Romanovs: Ruling Russia 1613–1917. New York: Bloomsbury
• Lincoln, W. B. (1981). The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias. New York: Doubleday
• Montefiore, S. (2017). Romanovs: 1613–1918, New York: Vintage.

Peter the Great[]

• Bushkovitch, P. (2001). Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671–1725. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^{[201][202][203]}
• Bushkovitch, P. (2016). Peter the Great. London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• Hughes, L. (1997). Russia in the Age of Peter the Great. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.^[204]

Catherine the Great[]

• Alexander, J. T. (1989). Catherine the Great: Life and Legend. New York: Oxford University Press.^[205][206]
• Dixon, S. (2010). Catherine the Great. London: Routledge.^[207][208]
• Madariaga, I. de, (1981). Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.^[209][210]
• Rounding, V. (2007). Catherine the Great: Love, Sex and Power. London: St Martins Press.^[211][212]

Alexander I[]

• Hartley, J. M. (1994). Alexander I. London: Addison-Wesley Longman.
• Rey, M. P. (2012). Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.^{[213][214][215]}

Nicholas I[]

• Lincoln, W. B. (1978). Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.^{[216][217][218]}
• Riasanovsky, N. V. (1959). Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia, 1825–1855. Berkeley: University of California Press.^{[219][220][221]}

Alexander II[]

• Almedingen, E. M. (1962). The Emperor Alexander II: A Study. London: Bodley Head.^[222]
• Radzinsky, E. (2005). Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar. New York: Free Press.
• Rieber, A. (1971). Alexander II: A Revisionist View. The Journal of Modern History, 43(1), 42–58.

Rasputin[]

• Fuhrman, J. T. (2012). Rasputin: The Untold Story. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
• Smith, D. (2016). Rasputin: Faith, Power and the Twilight of the Romanovs. London: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.^[223]

Nicholas II[]

• Frankland, N. (1961). Imperial Tragedy: Nicholas II, Last of the Tsars. New York: Coward-McCann.^[224]
• Ferro, M. (1995). Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.^[225]
• Lieven, D. (1993). Nicholas II: Emperor of all the Russias. London, UK: John Murray Publishing.^[226][227]
• Massie, R. K. (2012). Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty. New York, NY: Modern Library.
• Maylunas, A., & Mironenko, S. (2000). Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story. New York, NY: Doubleday.
• Montefiore, S. (2016). The Romanovs: 1613–1918. New York, NY: Knopf.^[228]
• Perry, J. C. & Pleshakov, C. V. (1999). The Flight Of The Romanovs: A Family Saga. New York, NY: Basic Books.^[229]
• Radzinsky, E. (1992). The Last Tsar: The Life And Death Of Nicholas II. New York, NY: Doubleday.^[230]
• Rappaport, H. (2009). The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.
• Rounding, V. (2012). Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina. London: St Martins Press.
• Service, R. W. (2017). The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution. New York, NY: Pegasus Books.

Authors[]

• Bartlett, R. (2010). Tolstoy: A Russian Life. London: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.^[231]
• Frank, J. (2009). Dostoevsky: A Writer in his Time. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.^[232]
• O’Meara, P. (2016). K.F. Ryleev: A Political Biography of the Decembrist Poet. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.^[233][234]

Other[]

• Alexander, J. T. (1973). Emperor of the Cossacks: Pugachev and the Frontier Jacquerie of 1773–75. Lawrence, KS: Kansas University Press.^[235][236]
• Anisimov, E. V. (1995). Elizabeth: Her Reign and her Russia, 1741–1761. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press.^[237][238]
• Barratt, G. (1975). The Rebel on the Bridge: A life of the Decembrist Baron Andrey Rozen, 1800-84. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.^[239][240]
• Batalden, S. K. (1982). Catherine II’s Greek Prelate: Eugenios Voulgaris in Russia 1771–1806. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Byrnes, R. F. (1968). Pobedonostsev: His Life and Thought. Bloomington, IN: Indian University Press.^[241][242]
• Cockfield, J. H. (2002). White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, 1859–1919. Westport, CT: Praeger.^[243][244]
• Crawford, R., & Crawford, D. (1997). Michael and Natasha: The Life and Love of the Last Tsar of Russia. New York: Prentice Hall.^[245]
• Curtiss, M. A. (1974). Forgotten Empress: Anna Ivanovna and Her Era. New York: Ungar Publishing Company.^[246][247]
• Fairweather, M. (1997). Pilgrim Princess: A Life of Princess Zinaida Volkonsky. London: Carroll & Graf Publishers.
• Green, A. (2010). Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.^{[248][249][250]}
• Hall, C. (2006). Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna, 1847–1928. London: Holmes & Meier.^[251]
• Hughes, L. (1990). Sophia, Regent of Russia 1654–1704. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Jenkins, M. (1969). Arakcheev: Grand Vizier of the Russian Empire. New York: Dial Press.^[252][253]
• Josselson, M., & Josselson, D. (1980). The Commander: A Life of Barclay de Tolly. Oxford: Oxford University Press.^[254][255]
• Jones, W. G. (1984). Nikolay Novikov: Enlightener of Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^{[256][257][258]}
• Longworth, P. (1984). Alexis, Tsar of All the Russias. London: Vintage.^{[259][260][261]}
• Longworth, P. (1965). The Art of Victory: The Life and Achievements of Field Marshal Suvorov, 1729–1800. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.^[262][263]
• Longworth, P. (1972). The Three Empresses: Catherine I, Anne, and Elizabeth of Russia. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.^{[264][265][266][267]}
• McGrew, R. E. (1992). Paul I of Russia, 1754–1801. Oxford: Oxford University Press.^[268][269]
• Montefiore, S. (2000). The Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin. London: Thomas Dunne Books.
• Ransel, D. L. (2008). A Russian Merchant’s Tale: The Life and Adventures of Ivan Alekseevich Tolchënov, Based on His Diary. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.^{[270][271][272]}
• Rappaport, H. (2015). Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses. London: St. Martin's Press.
• Rhinelander, A. L. H. (1990). Prince Michael Vorontsov: Viceroy to the Tsar. Montreal: Carleton University Press.^{[273][274][275]}
• Robinson, P. (2014). Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich: Supreme Commander of the Russian Army. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.^[276][277]
• Sutherland, C. (1984). The Princess of Siberia: The Story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist Exiles. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.^[278]
• Van der Kiste, J., & Hall, C. (2013). Once a Grand Duchess: Xenia, Sister of Nicholas II. London: Sutton Publishing.
• Wcislo, F. (2011). Tales of Imperial Russia: The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849–1915. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Historiography[]

• Confino, M. (2009). The New Russian Historiography, and the Old – Some Considerations. History and Memory, 21(2), 7–33.
• Karpovich, M. (1943). Klyuchevski and Recent Trends in Russian Historiography. Slavonic and East European Review. American Series, 2(1), 31–39.
• Mazour, A. (1937). Modern Russian Historiography. The Journal of Modern History, 9(2), 169–202.
• Sanborn, J. (2013). Russian Historiography on the Origins of the First World War Since the Fischer Controversy. Journal of Contemporary History, 48(2), 350–362.

Primary sources[]

A limited number of English language primary sources referred to in the above works.^[b]

• Herzen, A. (1968). My Past and Thoughts: The memoirs of Alexander Herzen (4 vols.) (C. Garnett, Trans.). New York: Knopf.

Reference works[]

• Kievan Rus. (2016). Encyclopedia Britannica.
• Auty, R., Obelensky, D., & et al. (2010). Companion to Russian Studies (Vol. 1, An Introduction to Russian History; Vol.2, Russian Language and Literature; Vol. 3, An Introduction to Russian Art and Architecture). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Barnes, I., & Lieven, D. (2015). Restless Empire: A Historical Atlas of Russia (Illustrated edition). Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
• Brown, A. et al. (1982). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Channon, J., & Hudson, R. (1995). The Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia. New York: Penguin.
• Gilbert, M. (2007). The Routledge Atlas of Russian History (4th edition). London: Routledge.
• Katchanovski, I., Kohut, Z. E., Nebesio, B. Y., & Yurkevich, M. (2013). Historical Dictionary of Ukraine. (Second edition). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
• Langer, L. N. (2001). Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press.
• Lerski, H. (1996). Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
• Millar, J. R. (Ed.). (2004). Encyclopedia of Russian History (4 vols.). New York: Macmillan Library Reference.

Russian history academic journals[]

The list below contains journals referenced in this bibliography and which have substantial contributions about Russian history.

• Canadian-American Slavic Studies (1967–Present): Brill Online.
• Central Asian Survey (1982–Present): Taylor Francis Online.
• Contemporary European History (1992-2014): JSTOR.
• East European Quarterly (1967-2008, 2015–Present): Central European University.
• Journal of Baltic Studies (1970–Present): Taylor Francis Online.
• Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography (2008–Present): Brill Online.
• Journal of Slavic Military Studies (1988–Present): Taylor Francis Online.
• (1976-2012): Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
• Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (2000–Present): Georgetown University, Project Muse.
• The Polish Review (1942-1945, 1956-2019): The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, JSTOR.
• The Russian Review (1941–Present): Wiley Online, Wiley Online Library, JSTOR.
• Russian Studies in History (formerly Soviet Studies in History) (1962-1992, 1992–Present): Taylor Francis Online.
• Sibirica: Journal of Siberian Studies (2001-2019): Berghahn, Taylor Francis Online.
• The Slavic and East European Journal (1957–Present): American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, JSTOR.
• Slavic Review (1961–Present): University of Illinois, JSTOR.
• Slavonic and East European Review (1922-1927, 1928–Present): UCL School of Slavonic And East European Studies, JSTOR.

Further reading[]

Many of the above works contain bibliographies. Included below are a selection of works with large bibliographies related to Russian history.

• Lieven, D., Perrie, M., & Suny, R. (Eds.). (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia (3 vols.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^[c]

See also[]

• Bibliography of the history of the Early Slavs and Rus'
• Bibliography of Russian history (1223–1613)
• Bibliography of the Russo-Japanese War
• Bibliography of Russia during World War I
• Bibliography of the Soviet Union (disambiguation)

References[]

Notes[]

Citations[]

External links[]

• Everyday life and microhistory in Russia: A selected bibliography of critical studies. Indiana University, Bloomington.
• Janet Martin – Bibliography. (2015). Russian History, 42(1), 3–8.