Paul Bushkovitch

Paul Bushkovitch received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1975. He specializes in Russia before the eighteenth century. He is the author of The Merchants of Moscow 1580-1650 (1980), Religion and Society in Russia, the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1992), (with Maija Jansson and Nikolai Rogozhin) “England and the North: the Russian Embassy of 1613-1614,” Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 210 (1994), Peter the Great (2001), Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725 (2001), A Concise History of Russia, Cambridge, 2012, and Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia: the Transfer of Power 1450-1725, Cambridge, 2021.

 

His courses include an introduction to early Russian history (undergraduate and graduate), Russia and the steppe 900-1917 (undergraduate) foreign policy in Russia and the USSR 1856-1945 (graduate), and the age of Peter the Great (graduate).