![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. James Cracraft, University of Illinois, Chicago, Slavic Review, Vol.72, Issue 2 "Robert Collis must be applauded for amassing in a single well-indexed volume so much primary material relating to lesser known aspects of the Russian and larger European cultural world at a critical time in its history." Jo Hedesan, University of Oxford, Ambix, Vol.61, No.1 The Petrine Instauration: Religion, Esotericism and Science at the Court of Peter the Great, 1689-1725. The exposition of this multi-layered mixture of ideas makes for a fascinating read and successfully articulates the chief claim of the book, which is that the Petrine court was neither secular, nor scientific in a positivistic sense." The Petrine Instauration: Religion, Esotericism and Science at the Court of Peter the Great, 1689-1725. He is best known for working for the Red Cross at Bergen-Belsen. ![]() "The book is at its most successful when highlighting both the use of eschatological imagery in Petrine Russia, and the openness of the Petrine court to alchemical, astrological and scientific ideas. About Robert Collis: William Robert Fitzgerald Collis was an author and doctor. "Detailed and thoughtprovoking, this book will no doubt generate a lively debate on Petrine ideology."Įndre Sashalmi, University of Pécs, Hungary, Slavonica, Vol 19 (2013) research and purchase of natural collections, see: Robert Collis, The Petrine Instauration: Re- ligion, Esotericism and Science at the Court of Peter the. ![]()
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