Copyright

Ingrid Maier

Published On

2017-11-27

Page Range

pp. 113-152

Language

  • English

Print Length

39 pages

4. How Was Western Europe Informed about Muscovy? The Razin Rebellion in Focus

Chapter of: Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1854 (pp. 113–152)

This investigates how publishers managed to acquire the reports from Muscovy that ended up in their newspapers and how this news was then transmitted to the West. Maier pays particular attention to the Swedish diplomats who were likely involved in the process. She analyses this dissemination of information in the context of the media sensation that was the Razin Rebellion, which, according to the German press historian Martin Welke, was one of the most frequently reported subjects in the German-language press of the years 1670–71. This chapter showcases Maier’s impressive multi-national command of archives.

Contributors

Ingrid Maier

(author)
Professor of Russian in the Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala University
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1065-9653

Ingrid Maier is a Professor of Russian in the Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala University. Her research interests lie in the history of Russian language and culture, especially aspects of influences between Western Europe and Russia. Some of the main topics of her recent research concern translations of European (above all German and Dutch) newspapers into Russian during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries ("Vesti-Kuranty") and the history of the Russian court theatre at the time of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich. Her most recent book is The Court Theatre in Russia during the Seventeenth Century: New Sources (in Russian, 2016, with Claudia Jensen).