Golden Horde 20–24, 34–35, 37, 48
end of Russian dependency on 42–43
gold standard 220, 279
Golitsyn, Prince Alexander 150–151
Golitsyn, Prince Boris 76–78, 99
Golitsyn, Prince V.V. 75, 76
Golovin, Fyodor 81–82, 84, 87
Gomulka, Wladyslaw 441
Gorbachev, Mikhail 412, 428, 446–452
Gorchakov, Prince 250, 267, 274
Gordon, Patrick 80, 82
Gorky, Maxim 335, 342–343, 364, 416
Gosplan (State Planning Committee) 325, 365
Gottwald, Klement 432
GPU (Main Political Administration) 353–355
Great Britain (England) 42, 53, 81, 107, 134, 152, 186–187, 274, 291–293
Central Asia and 266–267, 291, 293
Cold War and 430, 440
Crimean War and 170–171, 257
early USSR and 331–332
Napoleonic wars and 140–141, 145–146, 149–150
Ottoman Turks and 169–170, 249–251
Russian Revolution and 299, 308, 314–316
Seven Years War and 114–115
WW I and 293, 294
WW II and 371–378, 387–388
Great Horde 34, 37, 42–43
Greece 169, 389, 433–434
antiquity 5, 8
revolt of 1821 152, 169
Greeks 8, 12, 17, 40, 62, 72–73, 133
Green Lamp society 153, 176
Gregory, Johann 72
Grimm, Baron Friedrich M. 125
Grozny, Battle for 454, 456–457
GULAG (Chief Administration of Camps) 362–363, 365, 396–398, 400, 411
Gustavus III, King of Sweden 133, 134
Hansa League 13, 24, 27
Haskalah 259
Heeckeren, Baron van 179
Hegel, G.W.F. xvii, 162–164, 182, 199, 296
Herzen, Alexander 162–163, 183, 187, 191–193, 197–198
Hitler, Adolf 369–370, 372–375, 377–379, 382–384, 386–388, 390, 392, 434
Ho Chi Minh 332, 435
Holy Alliance 151–152, 159
Holy League 77
Holy Roman Empire 9, 38, 48
Holy Synod 92, 107, 150, 160, 243, 273
Homer 5
Hoover, Herbert 319
Hoxha, Enver 441
Hughes, John 213
Hungary 1, 20, 38, 167, 330, 389, 391, 432
Revolution of 1956 400–401, 441–442
Huxley, Aldous 346
Iagoda, Genrikh 360, 364
Iakovlev, Alexander 412, 448
Iaroslav “The Wise,” Grand Prince of Kiev Rus 11, 17
Iavorskii, Metropolitan Stefan 83, 90–91
ICBMs 409, 437, 443
icons 18, 26, 31–33, 407
Igor, Prince of Kiev 3
Ilarion, Metropolitan of Kiev 12
Ilf, Ilya 345
imperialism 296, 331–332, 371
India 92, 114, 169, 251, 266–268, 440
Indonesia 42
Ingrians 27, 67
Ioakim, Patriarch of Moscow 72
Ioffe, Abram 216, 346–349, 419, 430
Iona of Riazan, Metropolitan of Moscow 36
Iosif, Patriarch of Russia 69
Iran (Persia) 20, 38, 92, 146, 167, 263, 266–267, 329
British Treaty on (1907) 291, 293
war of 1826–28 167–168
Iraq 20
Irina, Tsarevna (aunt of Fyodor Alekseevich) 74–75
Isidoros, Metropolitan of Kiev 35, 36
Islamic revolt (1898) 269
Islam (Muslims) 4–5, 21, 49, 67, 168, 264–265, 267–269
Elizabeth and 111
Russian Revolution and 288, 302
Soviet federalism and 326–329, 367
Israel 395, 411
ancient, Russia as “new,” 45
Italy 4, 43–44, 96, 104, 151, 155, 173, 175, 250
Napoleonic wars and 140, 147
post-WW II 434–444
WW II and 374, 388
Itinerant Association of Russian Artists 238–240, 337
Iudenich, General Nikolai 314
Iurii Danilovich, Prince of Moscow 22
Iurii (uncle of Vasilii II) 33
Ivan III, Grand Prince of Moscow 36–45
Ivan IV, the Terrible, Grand Prince of Moscow 42, 46–53, 84, 234, 239
Ivan V, Tsar (co-ruler with Peter the Great) 73–76
Ivan VI, Tsar 102–103, 122
Ivan Ivanovich (heir of Ivan the Terrible) 52
Ivan “Kalita,” The Moneybag, Prince of Vladimir 22–23
Ivanov, Alexander 173, 238
Iziaslav I, Prince of Kiev 17
jadidism 268
Jadwiga, “King” of Poland 28–29
Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland 77
Japan 275–277, 308, 313–314, 316, 332, 430, 434–435
war of 1904–5 220, 269–270, 272, 283–284
WW II and 374–375, 388–389
Jesuits 68, 72, 82
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee 395
Jewish Pale of Settlement 214, 258–259, 261, 274
Jewish Workers’ League (Bund) 260
Jews 121, 212–215, 222, 243, 251, 253, 258–261, 269, 271, 274, 278, 280
emigration of Soviet 411–412, 445, 453
pogroms and 206, 251, 259–260, 285, 290, 312–313
Russian Revolution and 282, 283, 315
Soviet 326, 330, 346, 366, 395–396, 423
WW II and 375, 377, 383, 393, 424
Jochi 20
Jogailo, King of Poland 28–29
Jones, John Paul 134
Joseph II, Emperor of Austria 133, 137
Joseph of Volokolamsk, Saint 45–46
Judaism 5, 7, 16
Judaizers 45
judicial system 63–64, 132
reform of 1864 193–195
Justinian, Emperor of Rome 7, 17
Kadar, Janos 441
Kadets (Constitutional Democrats) 286–288, 297–298, 304, 349
Kadyrov, Ahmad 456
Kaganovich, Lazar 359, 363, 364, 366, 394, 399–400, 402
Kaledin, Alexei 304
Kalinin, Mikhail 310–311
Kamenev, Lev 303, 307, 310–311, 321–323, 358
Kandinsky, Wassily 335, 339
Kankrin, Georg 252
Kant, Immanuel 152, 162
Kapitsa, Piotr 419–420
Karakozov, Dmitrii 203
Karamzin, Nikolai 142, 145, 175–176
Karl VI, Holy Roman Emperor 90, 91
Kasso, Lev 347
Katkov, Mikhail N. 162, 164, 201, 242, 245
Katyn massacre 375
Kaufman, Konstantin von 267
Kaunas massacre 383
Kaunitz, Count Wenzel Anton 114
Kazakhs 222, 249, 329, 408
Kazakhstan 2, 21, 266, 269, 329, 367, 404, 458
Kazan’ 34, 37–38, 43, 48, 49, 124
Kazan’ University 142
Kennedy, John F. 440
Kerenskii, Aleksandr 298–299, 301–303
KGB 411–412, 425, 456
Khalkhin Gol, Battle of 375
Khalturin, Stepan 205
Khar’kov 261–262, 386
Khar’kov Technological Institute 216
Khar’kov University 142, 260, 262
Khasbulatov, Ruslan 454
Khazars 5, 6
Khitrovo, Bodgan 74
Khiva 251, 266, 269, 329
Khmel’nyts’kyi, Bohdan, Hetman of the Ukraine 65–66, 261
Khovanskii, Prince Ivan 76
Khrushchev, Nikita 363, 366, 394, 397–407, 424–425, 438–444
“secret speech” on Stalin 399, 424, 442
Khwarezm 20, 21
Kiev 60, 68, 73, 221, 262, 302, 304, 306, 315, 379, 390–391
Kiev Academy 68–69
Kiev Archeographical Society 262
Kiev Polytechnical Institute 216, 347
Kiev Rada 304
Kiev Rus (principality), xix 1–22, 28–29, 135
Mongol invasion 18, 20–23
Kim Il Sung 435–436
Kipchaks (Polovtsy) 5–6, 15, 18, 20–21
Kiprian, Metropolitan of Kiev 35
Kirghiz 268, 329
Kirill of Belozero, Saint 30, 31
Kirov, Sergei 358, 363
Kishinev pogrom 260
Kissinger, Henry 445
Knights of Malta 140
Kochubei, Viktor 252
Kokand khanate 251, 266
Kolchak, Alexander 308–309, 312, 314, 327
kolhoz. See collective farms
Komsomol (Communist League of Youth) 400, 404, 448–450, 454
Konstantin Nikolaevich, Grand Duke (brother of Alexander II) 188–191, 19, 214
Konstantin Pavlovich, Grand Duke (brother of Alexander I) 154
Korean War 435–436
Kornilov, Lavr 301–302, 308
Korolev, Sergei 421
Korsun, Battle of 391
Kosciuszko, Tadeusz 135, 139
Kostomarov, Nikolai 262
Kosygin, Aleksei 407
Kramskoi, Ivan 237–238
Kravchuk, Leonid 450
Krestinskii, Nikolai 310–311
Kronstadt 88, 170