Early Imperial Russia

By Dr Adrian JonesEducation

Early Imperial Russia episodes

August 14, 2013 Tarkovsky's Film 'Andrei Rublëv' (handout)
Adrian Jones introduces Andrei Tarkovsky's great film Andrei Rublëv (1964, 1966-69), sometimes spelt as "Roublev" or "Rublyov". The film traces episodes in the fourteenth-century life of one of the greatest of Russian icon painters.
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August 13, 2013 Tarkovsky's Film 'Andrei Rublëv'
Adrian Jones introduces Andrei Tarkovsky's great film Andrei Rublëv (1964, 1966-69), sometimes spelt as "Roublev" or "Rublyov". The film traces episodes in the fourteenth-century life of one of the greatest of Russian icon painters.
Copyright 2013 Adrian Jones / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
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August 13, 2013 Tarkovsky's Film 'Andrei Rublëv' (handout)
Adrian Jones introduces Andrei Tarkovsky's great film Andrei Rublëv (1964, 1966-69), sometimes spelt as "Roublev" or "Rublyov". The film traces episodes in the fourteenth-century life of one of the greatest of Russian icon painters.
Copyright 2013 Adrian Jones / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
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August 05, 2013 Kiev Russia and Tatar-Mongols (slides)
Adrian Jones contrasts the different Kievan (C10th-C13th) and Tatar-Mongol (C13th to C15th) eras, tracing their different influences on medieval Russian history. Adrian refers wherever possible to illustrations from the period. He places events and polities in Russia in the wider context of Eurasian history.
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August 05, 2013 Kiev Russia and Tatar-Mongols (handout)
Adrian Jones contrasts the different Kievan (C10th-C13th) and Tatar-Mongol (C13th to C15th) eras, tracing their different influences on medieval Russian history. Adrian refers wherever possible to illustrations from the period. He places events and polities in Russia in the wider context of Eurasian history.
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August 05, 2013 Kiev Russia and Tatar-Mongols
Adrian Jones contrasts the different Kievan (C10th-C13th) and Tatar-Mongol (C13th to C15th) eras, tracing their different influences on medieval Russian history. Adrian refers wherever possible to illustrations from the period. He places events and polities in Russia in the wider context of Eurasian history.
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1 hr 31 min
August 04, 2013 Kiev Russia and Tatar-Mongols
Adrian Jones contrasts the different Kievan (C10th-C13th) and Tatar-Mongol (C13th to C15th) eras, tracing their different influences on medieval Russian history. Adrian refers wherever possible to illustrations from the period. He places events and polities in Russia in the wider context of Eurasian history.
Copyright 2013 Adrian Jones / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
1 hr 31 min
August 04, 2013 Kiev Russia and Tatar-Mongols (slides)
Adrian Jones contrasts the different Kievan (C10th-C13th) and Tatar-Mongol (C13th to C15th) eras, tracing their different influences on medieval Russian history. Adrian refers wherever possible to illustrations from the period. He places events and polities in Russia in the wider context of Eurasian history.
Copyright 2013 Adrian Jones / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
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August 04, 2013 Kiev Russia and Tatar-Mongols (handout)
Adrian Jones contrasts the different Kievan (C10th-C13th) and Tatar-Mongol (C13th to C15th) eras, tracing their different influences on medieval Russian history. Adrian refers wherever possible to illustrations from the period. He places events and polities in Russia in the wider context of Eurasian history.
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August 01, 2013 The Origin of Russia and Russians II
The lecture opens with a response to Adrian's previous lecture by Adrian's teaching assistant, a Russo-Ukrainian scholar, Dmytro Ostapenko. History is all about argument and evidence. Dmytro critiques Adrian's "Normanist" point of view about the C9th-C10th origins of the Russian state (i.e., that the Rusi’an state was Varangian-Viking inspired). Dr Dmytro Ostapenko offers a stricter view of what is meant by “statehood”. Dr Ostapenko cites evidence discussing how bands had already evolved into Slavic tribes and kings (and hence a state) and he discusses a wider range of what he believes are indigenous Slavic cultural and economic influences on state formation. Adrian then replies and as he does he discusses more of the Viking and Slav evidence, focussing on the Russian Primary Chronicle (circa 1115) and relations between forest and steppe, as viewed in the light of Arab-Persian (Ibn Fadhlan, Ibn Khurdadbeh), Carolingian (Bertinian Annals 832), Byzantine (C10th Constantine VII Porphyrogenitas on the Administration of the Empire) and Khazar sources.
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1 hr 46 min

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In this subject, students examine the emergence, consolidation and development of Russian state and society in a hitherto 'wild' region in eastern Europe. The formative phase in the political, social…