1. Part II: Post-Petrine Consolidation (4) Nationalities & Culture

2. VI. Nationalities

3. 1. Themes a.Turning point b.Diversity c.Administrative russification d.Agricultural Settlement

4. 2. Structure of Minority Populations a.Internal Muscovite groups b.Uralic and Siberian peoples c.Central Asia d.Caucasus e.Ukraine f.Polish territories g.Baltics

7. German Colonist and Wife

8. Kamchatka Woman, 1770s

9. Crimean Tatars (Pallas Sketch, 1770s)

10. 3. Conclusions a.Diversity, complexity b.Strain toward integration (“administrative russification”) c.Cultural limits: religious and cultural assimilation

11. VII Culture

12. 1. Themes a.Elite acculturation b.Creation of cultural institutions c.National self-consciousness d.First radicals e.Orthodox enlightenment

13. 2. Science and Scholarship a.Academy of Sciences b.Moscow University

14. Peter S. Pallas: Academician and Explorer of Siberia

15. Rychkov, Daily Notes (1770) Sketch of Tatar Village

16. M.V. Lomonosov

17. Moscow University Charter (1755)

18. Moscow University 1790

19. Moscow University

20. 3. Education a.Pre-Petrine b.Catherine’s Public Schools (1786)

21. Betskoi and Smolnyi Institut

22. 4. High Culture a.Elizabethan era b.Catherinean

23. Book Publishing, 1725-1800 IntervalAnnual averagePercent in civil script 1725-91754 1750-43554 1771-519294 1786-9038796 1796-180030693

24. Ezhemesiachnye sochineniia (Monthly Works)

25. Mikhail Lomonosov, Poetry Collection (1751)

26. Fedor Volkov, Founder of Russian Theater (1756)

27. Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin

28. Nikolai Karamzin

29. V.L. Borovikovskii Portrait of M. Lopukhina (1797)

30. 5. National Consciousness a.Why? Decline of religious identity Foreign travel Foreigners in top state positions b.Reactions Critique of francomania Discovery of the folk Inventing history

31. Novikov: Satire on Russian Dandy “Young Russian pig, who has travelled in foreign countries for enlightenment of his mind and, having completed his travels without profit, has returned a complete swine. Those wishing to inspect him may see him on the boulevards of St. Petersburg.”

32. Dmitrii Iv. Chulkov: Collection of Popular Songs

33. M.M. Shcherbatov, History of Russia (1771)

34. Historical Consciousness Aleksandr Sumarokov, 1760 “Those who proclaim that we were nothing but barbarians before Peter the Great... Do not know what they are talking about. Our ancestors were in no way inferior to us.”

35. 6. First Dissenters a.Novikov and masons b.Critical public opinion c.Alexander Radishchev, A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow (1790)

36. Nikolai I. Novikov

37. Novikov’s Truten’ (1769-70)

38. Alexander Radishchev

39. Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow (1790)

40. 7. Popular Religion a.The Faithful: Rechristianization b.The Dissenters: Old Believers and Sectarians