Abstract
From Eyewitness Narratives to Retellings and Literary Adaptations: The Russian Time of Troubles in Early Modern Europe
Highlights
In his article “Muscovy Looks West,” Marc Raeff states the following: Up to about the middle of the seventeenth century, with some rare and insignificant exceptions, “medieval” Russia, or Muscovy, had existed in relative isolation from Central and Western Europe; even with its immediate neighbours, Poland and Sweden, there had hardly been much cultural and economic exchange. (Raeff 16)This idea of Russia’sisolation from Europe represents a kind of “common sense” for a large number of scholars both in the West and in Russia
As far as Possevino is concerned, his writings on Moscovia, which were translated into Spanish by Juan Mosquera in 1606, are believed to be Lope de Vega’s main source (Ziomek 207)
Amidst Lope de Vega’s prolific oeuvre, there is a play titled The Great Prince of Muscovy3 (El Gran Duque de Moscovia y emperador perseguido), which focuses on the events of the Time of Troubles
Summary
In his article “Muscovy Looks West,” Marc Raeff states the following: Up to about the middle of the seventeenth century, with some rare and insignificant exceptions, “medieval” Russia, or Muscovy, had existed in relative isolation from Central and Western Europe; even with its immediate neighbours, Poland and Sweden, there had hardly been much cultural and economic exchange. (Raeff 16). There were valid reasons, mostly political, for the development and popularization of the view that prior to Peter the Great, Russia had been a thing-in-itself; it had stewed in its own juice and tried to evade foreign influences from both the East and West Following this interpretation, the eighteenth century Russian historians advocated Peter the Great’s reforms and backed the political genius of the Emperor, who modernized his country and virtually “dragged” it into Europe. The eighteenth century Russian historians advocated Peter the Great’s reforms and backed the political genius of the Emperor, who modernized his country and virtually “dragged” it into Europe This view was popular among the European scholars who settled in Russia and constituted a significant part of the Academia. In Russian historiography, this epoch is called the Time of Troubles
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