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О политическом дискурсе при дворе Софьи Алексеевны: Bushkovitch P. Religion and Society in Russia: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992; Hughes L. Russia and the West: The Life of a SeventeenthCentury Westernizer, Prince Vasily Vasilievich Golitsyn (1643–1714). Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners, 1984; Hughes L. Sophia, Regent of Russia, 1657–1704. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990.

Об образе райского сада: Baehr S. The Paradise Myth in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Utopian Patterns in Early Secular Russian Literature and Culture. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991; Schönle A. Garden of the Empire: Catherine’s Appropriation of the Crimea // Slavic Review. 2001. № 60. Р. 1–23; O’Neill K. Constructing Imperial Identity in the Borderland: Architecture, Islam and the Renovation of the Crimean Landscape // Ab Imperio. 2006. № 2. Р. 163–192.

О женщинах из царских династий: Thyrêt I. Between God and Tsar: Religious Symbolism and the Royal Women of Muscovite Russia. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. О наследовании престола и репрезентации легитимности в XVIII веке: Whittaker C. Russian Monarchy: Eighteenth-Century Rulers and Writers in Political Dialogue. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003; Wirtschafter E. The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theater. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003; Golburt L. The First Epoch: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Cultural Imagination. Madison, Wis.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2014; Proskurina V. Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2011.

О Петре I: Hughes L. Russia in the Age of Peter the Great. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998; Hughes L. Peter the Great: A Biography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002; Bushkovitch P. Peter the Great. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001; Bushkovitch P. Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671–1725. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. См. также портрет Петра в «Курсе русской истории» В. О. Ключевского, полный драгоценных деталей, что характерно для этого историка.

О культурных преобразованиях см. непревзойденную трилогию Джеймса Кракрафта: Cracraft J. The Petrine Revolution in Russian Architecture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988; Cracraft J. The Petrine Revolution in Russian Imagery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997; Cracraft J. The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. В своей книге «The Revolution of Peter the Great» (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003) Кракрафт подчеркивает значение Петербурга как продукта «культурной революции».