The Romantic search for a national past was a European Preoccupation in the first half of the nineteenth century. In Russia, this process led to the formation of the Russian Style that has until today
During that century, says Whittaker (history, Baruch College and City U. of New York), secular justification for power replaced religious sanction, rationalist arguments superseded acceptance based on
Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825, an elegant new book created by a team of leading historians in collaboration with The New York Public Library, traces Russia's development from an insular, medieva
