Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 The Don region
- 2 The wider world of the Don steppe frontier
- Introduction
- 1 Beyond borders, between worlds: Russian Empire and the making of the Don steppe frontier
- 2 People and power on the frontier: liberty, diversity, and de-centralization in the Don region to 1700
- 3 A middle ground between autonomy and dependence: the raiding economy of the Don steppe frontier to 1700
- 4 Boundaries of integration or exclusion? Migration, mobility, and state sovereignty on the southern frontier to 1700
- 5 Testing the boundaries of imperial alliance: cooperation, negotiation and resistance in the era of Razin (1667–1681)
- 6 Between Rus' and Rossiia: realigning the boundaries of Cossack communities in a time of migration and transition (1681–1695)
- 7 The era of raskol: religion and rebellion (1681–1695)
- 8 Incorporation without integration: the Azov interlude (1695–1711)
- 9 From frontier to borderland: the demarcation of the steppe and the delegitimization of raiding (1696–1710)
- 10 Boundaries of land, liberty, and identity: making the Don region legible to imperial officials (1696–1706)
- 11 The Bulavin uprising: the last stand of the old steppe (1706–1709)
- 12 Reshaping the Don in the imperial image: power, privilege, and patronage in the post-Bulavin era (1708–1739)
- 13 Closing the Cossack community: recording and policing the boundaries of group identity (1708–1739)
- 14 A borderline state of mind: the closing of the Don steppe frontier (1708–1739)
- Afterword
- Index
- References
1 - Beyond borders, between worlds: Russian Empire and the making of the Don steppe frontier
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 The Don region
- 2 The wider world of the Don steppe frontier
- Introduction
- 1 Beyond borders, between worlds: Russian Empire and the making of the Don steppe frontier
- 2 People and power on the frontier: liberty, diversity, and de-centralization in the Don region to 1700
- 3 A middle ground between autonomy and dependence: the raiding economy of the Don steppe frontier to 1700
- 4 Boundaries of integration or exclusion? Migration, mobility, and state sovereignty on the southern frontier to 1700
- 5 Testing the boundaries of imperial alliance: cooperation, negotiation and resistance in the era of Razin (1667–1681)
- 6 Between Rus' and Rossiia: realigning the boundaries of Cossack communities in a time of migration and transition (1681–1695)
- 7 The era of raskol: religion and rebellion (1681–1695)
- 8 Incorporation without integration: the Azov interlude (1695–1711)
- 9 From frontier to borderland: the demarcation of the steppe and the delegitimization of raiding (1696–1710)
- 10 Boundaries of land, liberty, and identity: making the Don region legible to imperial officials (1696–1706)
- 11 The Bulavin uprising: the last stand of the old steppe (1706–1709)
- 12 Reshaping the Don in the imperial image: power, privilege, and patronage in the post-Bulavin era (1708–1739)
- 13 Closing the Cossack community: recording and policing the boundaries of group identity (1708–1739)
- 14 A borderline state of mind: the closing of the Don steppe frontier (1708–1739)
- Afterword
- Index
- References
Summary
In 1887, Tsar Alexander III wrote to the Don Cossack military Host to congratulate it on over three hundred years of service to Russia. He highlighted the fact that in the sixteenth century the Don Host and the Russian Empire matured together. The Cossacks “began to serve Russia in a period in which her might was only being born” and the Host “with its mighty breast guarded these [imperial] boundaries and facilitated the expansion of the territories of the Russian tsardom.” The narrative of how the Don Cossacks served the rising Russian Empire is a familiar one, but the services that empire rendered to the emergence of the Don Cossacks are less familiar. The empire's role in shaping the boundaries (ethnic, juridical, territorial) of Cossack communities was no less important than the Cossacks' role in advancing imperial boundaries.
While Don Cossacks indeed became bulwarks of Romanov power in a changing steppe in the era of Peter I, this imperial arrangement is all too often anachronistically projected onto earlier periods of the region's history. Few other populations in the empire could trace their ties to the tsars to a time before there was a Romanov dynasty or point to a privileged relationship with Russia that ran the entire course of its imperial history, but the view of Cossacks as loyal border guards was only created in the eighteenth century as they searched for a new role for themselves in the waning years of the steppe frontier.
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- Imperial BoundariesCossack Communities and Empire-Building in the Age of Peter the Great, pp. 13 - 26Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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