The Battle of Poltava
Author | : Peter Englund |
Publisher | : Gollancz |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Poltava (Ukraine), Battle of, 1709 |
ISBN | : 9780575051072 |
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Author | : Peter Englund |
Publisher | : Gollancz |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Poltava (Ukraine), Battle of, 1709 |
ISBN | : 9780575051072 |
Author | : Serhii Plokhy |
Publisher | : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Poltava (Ukraine), Battle of, 1709 |
ISBN | : 9781932650099 |
In 2009, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute gathered scholars from around the globe and from various fields of study to mark the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava. This collection of their papers provides a fresh look at this watershed event and sheds new light on the legacies of the battle's major players.
Author | : Alekseevich Moltusov Valery |
Publisher | : Century of the Soldier |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-12-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781912174874 |
Based on Swedish, Russian and Ukrainian source, this book presents a modern look at the pivotal battle of the Great Northern War. The uniqueness of the book is that it reveals the consistency and logic of the Russian army's actions. The book also provides a detailed historiography of the Battle of Poltava. The author reveals the secrets of military engineering art Russian and Swedish armies. For the first time, new evidence for the location and configuration of the fortification system on the battlefield is given, as well as new information on the actions of Russian artillery in battle is given. In addition, there is much information on the strength and composition of Russian troops аt different stages of the battle, as well as an examination of the participation in the battle of irregular military formations on both sides. The author's conclusions complement our understanding of the battle. Highly illustrated including specially-commissioned color artwork and maps, this is a major new account of one of the 18th century's most important battles.
Author | : Peter Englund |
Publisher | : I.B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781780764764 |
'This victory', exulted Peter the Great, 'has laid the final stone in the foundations of St Petersburg!' The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of the Tsar's vast Russian Empire. In 1700, seeking to open Russian trade routes to the West, the Tsar combined with Denmark, Saxony and Poland to attack Swedish hegemony in the North. Against the odds, King Charles XII of Sweden subdued the hostile coalition for nearly a decade, but in 1708 took his fatal decision to march for Moscow. His defeat at Poltava, in the Ukraine, proved the turning-point of the Great Northern War, heralding the collapse of the Swedish Empire and the rise of Russia, the effects of which would be felt for almost three hundred years. Swedish historian Peter Englund's vivid account of the three violent days of battle is an internationally acclaimed classic of military history, admired by scholars and the lay reader alike.
Author | : Peter Englund |
Publisher | : I.B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2003-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
And in the wealth of detail in this immensely readable book lies the greater history of the 17th and 18th centuries."--Jacket.
Author | : Angus Konstam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Northern War, 1700-1721 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2020-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0228003091 |
Ivan Mazepa (1639-1709), hetman of the Zaporozhian Host in what is now Ukraine, is a controversial figure, famous for abandoning his allegiance to Tsar Peter I and joining Charles XII's Swedish army during the Battle of Poltava. Although he is discussed in almost every survey and major book on Russian and Ukrainian history, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire is the first English-language biography of the hetman in sixty years. A translation and revision of Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva's 2007 Russian-language book, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire presents an updated perspective. This account is based on many new sources, including Mazepa's archive - thought lost for centuries before it was rediscovered by the author in 2004 - and post-Soviet Russian and Ukrainian historiography. Focusing on this fresh material, Tairova-Yakovleva delivers a more nuanced and balanced account of the polarizing figure who has been simultaneously demonized in Russia as a traitor and revered in Ukraine as the defender of independence. Chapters on economic reform, Mazepa's impact on the rise to power of Peter I, his cultural achievements, and the reasons he switched his allegiance from Peter to Charles integrate a larger array of issues and personalities than have previously been explored. Setting a standard for the next generation of historians, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire reveals an original picture of the Hetmanate during a moment of critical importance for the Russian Empire and Ukraine.
Author | : Graham J Morris |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-10-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The Swedish Empire, although not comparable with the huge areas and populations that we today associate with such empires as Rome, the Mongols or the Russian and British, was a formidable force to be reckoned with during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Her rise to the imperium can be traced back to the middle of the sixteenth century when, along with Russia, Poland and Denmark, Sweden also took advantage of the vacuum in the Baltic created after the collapse of the Teutonic Knights. The power struggle that resulted netted Sweden Livonia from Poland, West Pomerania and some of East Pomerania, Bremen, Verden and Wismar. She acquired Halland, Jämtland, Härjedalen and the Gotland and Ösel islands from Denmark, together with Skåne, Bohuslän and Blekinge, while Russia ceded Ingria and Lexholm, which effectively cut her off from the Baltic Sea. The Battle of Poltava (8 July 1709) was the decisive and largest battle of the Great Northern War. A Russian army under the command of Tsar Peter I defeated a Swedish army, under the command of Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld. The battle put an end to the status of the Swedish Empire as a European great power, as well as its eastbound expansion, and marked the beginning of Russian hegemony in Northern Europe.
Author | : George E. Blau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Oleg Rumyantsev |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788867050505 |
Exploring alternatives in East European history. The battle that took place near Konotop in late June 1659 was a continuation of the Muscovite-Cossack war, which began in the fall of 1658, soon after the signing of the Union of Hadiach. Cossack and Tatar detachments trapped a significant portion of the Muscovite army, leading to enormous Russian losses.