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Preface
Acknowledgements
Publisher's note
Note on translation, transliteration and place names
About the author, by Jonathan Oldfield

1 Introduction: geographical endeavour in early modern Russia
2 Russian geographical endeavour before Peter the Great (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries)
3 'The Great Designs of the Tsar': the era of Peter the Great (c. 1694-1725)
4 The post-Petrine period: the Academy of Sciences, the 1745 atlas and the Great Northern Expedition (1725-62)
5 The era of Catherine the Great (1762-96): a new age of imperial expansion
6 Widening horizons: geographical endeavour at the end of the 'long eighteenth century' (1796-1825)
7 Conclusion

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Denis J B Shaw is Honorary Senior Research Fellow and formerly Reader in Russian Geography at the University of Birmingham