A world-leading history scholar will explore the early culture and power of what is now one of the world鈥檚 superpower countries in a public lecture at the 黑料网 next week.
Professor Paul Bushkovich, from Yale University, is Visiting Carnegie Centenary Professor at the 黑料网, and will deliver the prestigious Carnegie Lecture, entitled 鈥楩rom Moscow to Petersberg: Culture, Power and Capital Cities in Early Modern Russia鈥�.
Professor Bushkovich received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1975 and is now regarded as an international leader in his field.
He specialises in Russia before the 18th century and is the author of a collection of widely respected publications including The Merchants of Moscow (1580 鈥� 1650) (1980), and Religion and Society in Russia, the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1992).
His most recent publications include "England and the North: the Russian Embassy of 1613-1614," Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 210 (1994), Peter the Great (2001), and Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725 (2001).
His graduate courses include an introduction to early Russian history and research seminars on topics in sixteenth and seventeenth century Russian history.
Professor Robert Frost, Head of the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, at the 黑料网, said he was delighted to welcome an academic of Professor Bushkovich鈥檚 standing to the University.
He said: 鈥淭he 黑料网 is delighted to welcome Professor Bushkovich as Carnegie Centenary Professor.
鈥淗e is one of the world鈥檚 leading historians of Russia in the period when Peter the Great first transformed it into a superpower, a project in which many Scots from the northeast were involved.鈥�
The Carnegie Lecture takes place on Wednesday, October 5, at 5.15pm at the 黑料网鈥檚 King鈥檚 College Centre. For further information or to book a place at the lecture, email: b.mcgillivray@abdn.ac.uk.