ÿþ<head> <title>Russian Interaction with Foreign Lands</title> </head> <body style="background: url(../Images/redbg.jpg) top left repeat-y;"> <body background=../Images/redbg.jpg bgcolor=690000 text=fcce19 link=ffffff vlink=fff769> <table width=100%> <td width=120> <td width=80%> <h1 align=center>Russian Interaction with Foreign Lands</h1> <center>Another work-in-progress<br> <i>Updated 6 October 2007</i></center> <p> Peter the Great's battle against Russian isolationism is so well known, it seems like Russia had little contact with foreign nations during its history. This is clearly untrue. <p> The below pages list the foreign interactions that I have found. I have tried to list them in chronological order, but some events were not precisely dated in my references, so the ordering is not perfect. <p> <a href=foreigninteractionA.html>Kievan Period:</a><ul> </ul> <a href=foreigninteractionB.html>Appanage Period:</a><ul> </ul> <a href=foreigninteractionC.html>Muscovite Period:</a><ul> </ul> <u>References:</u><ul> <li><u>Chronicle of the Hanse</u> hosted at the Kronika dziejow Hanzy. http://hanza.gdansk.pl/kronika_a.html <li>Fennel, John. <u>The Crisis of Medieval Russian 1200-1304</u> <li>Freeze, Gregory. <u>Russia, A History</u> <li>Jelisavcic, Micha and John Sloan. <u>Chronology of Russian History</u> at http://www.xenophon-mil.org/rushistory/rulers/chron10cen.htm <li>MacKenzie, David and Michael Curran. <u>A History of Russia, the Soviet Union, and Beyond</u> <li>Michell, Robert and Nevill Forbes, translators. <u>The Chronicle of Novgorod, 1016-1471</u> <li><u>Privileges Granted to German Merchants at Novgorod, 1229</u> hosted at the Medieval Sourcebook. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1229novgorod-germans.html <li>Rockhill, William, translator. <u>The Journey of Willam of Rubruck to the Eastern Parts of the World, 1253-55, as narrated by himself, with two accounts of the earlier journey of John of Pian de Carpine.</u> hosted at Silk Road Seattle, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/index.htm <li><u>Saga of Edward the Confessor</u> hosted at the Internet Sacred Text Archive. http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/index.htm <li><u>Wikipedia</u> - I know, I know. But where else can you find so much obscure history in one convenient spot? I'm verifying and correcting the Wiki information little by little. </ul> <hr> Let me know if you have any questions, corrections or suggestions. <i>sofya@heraldshill.org</i> <p> Back to <a href=index.html>Russian Material</a> </table> </body>