Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547-1917

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2023.

Academic editor: K. Parppei, B. Rakhimzianov

Defining the Others, “them”, in relation to one’s own reference group, “us”, has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities. This volume examines the development and contexts of various images, perceptions and categories of the external and internal Others in Russia from the 16th century Muscovy to the collapse of the Russian empire.

Chapters

From “Sovereign’s Foreigners” to “Our Savages”: Otherness of Siberian Indigenous Peoples in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia

Akimov Y., , in: Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547-1917.: Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023. Ch. 5 P. 140–167.

This chapter examines Russians’ perceptions of the indigenous population of Siberia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially under Peter the Great. Since the beginning of the conquest of Siberia, Russians perceived their indigenous population first as “foreigners” (inozemtsy), then as “strangers” (inorodtsy). At the same time, in the pre-Petrine era, the Russian administration demanded ...

Added: January 18, 2023

Keywords: Russian history