A world-leading history scholar will explore the early culture and power of what is now one of the world’s superpower countries in a public lecture at the University of Aberdeen next week.
Professor Paul Bushkovich, from Yale University, is Visiting Carnegie Centenary Professor at the University of Aberdeen, and will deliver the prestigious Carnegie Lecture, entitled ‘From Moscow to Petersberg: Culture, Power and Capital Cities in Early Modern Russia’.
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 – 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 University of Aberdeen, said he was delighted to welcome an academic of Professor Bushkovich’s standing to the University.
He said: “The University of Aberdeen is delighted to welcome Professor Bushkovich as Carnegie Centenary Professor.
“He is one of the world’s 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.”
The Carnegie Lecture takes place on Wednesday, October 5, at 5.15pm at the University of Aberdeen’s King’s College Centre. For further information or to book a place at the lecture, email: b.mcgillivray@abdn.ac.uk.