Bibliography of Russian history (1223–1613)

General works on Russian history which have significant context for Russian history in general or content about this bibliography's timeframe of history.

• Acton, E. (1995). Russia: The Tsarist and Soviet Legacy (2nd ed.). London: Longman.^[1]
• Ascher A. (2017). Russia: A Short History. (3rd Revised Ed.). London: Oneworld Publications.^[2]
• Auty R., Obolensky D. D. (Eds.) (1976-1981). Companion to Russian Studies (3 vols.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Bartlett, R. P. (2005). A History of Russia. — Basingstoke; N. Y.: Palgrave Macmillan. (Macmillan Essential Histories).^[3][4]
• Billington, J. H. (1966). The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.^[5]
• Blackwell, W. L. (1994). The Industrialization of Russia: A Historical Perspective (3rd ed.). Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson.^[6]
• Blum, J. (1961). Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.^[7][8]
• Bogatyrev, S. (Ed.). (2004). Russia Takes Shape: Patterns of Integration from the Middle Ages to the Present. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.^[9][10]
• Borrero, M. (2004) Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present. New York: Facts on File.^[11]
• Boterbloem, K. (2018) A History of Russia and Its Empire: From Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin. (2nd Ed.) Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.^[12]
• Boterbloem, K. (2020) Russia as Empire: Past and Present. London: Reaktion Books.^[13]
• Breyfogle, N., Schrader, A., & Sunderland, W. (Eds.). (2007). Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History. London: Routledge.^[14]
• Bushkovitch, P. (2011). A Concise History of Russia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^{[15][16][17][18]}
• Chatterjee, C. (2022). Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach. London: Bloomsbury Academic.^[19]
• Cherniavsky, M. (Ed.). (1970). The Structure of Russian History: Interpretive Essays. New York, NY: Random House.
• Christian, D. (1998–2018). A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia (2 vols.). Oxford, UK: Blackwell; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.^{[20][21][22][23]}
• Clarkson, J. D. (1969). A History of Russia (2nd ed.). New York: Random House.^[24][25]
• Connolly, R. (2020). The Russian Economy: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Dmytryshyn, B. (Ed.). (1991). Medieval Russia: A Source Book, 850–1700 (3rd ed.). Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.^[26][27]
• Dmytryshyn, B. (1977). A History of Russia. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.^[28][29]
• Dukes, P. (1998). A History of Russia: Medieval, Modern, Contemporary, c. 882–1996 (3rd ed.). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.^{[30][31][32][33][34]}
• Evtuhov, C., Goldfrank, D., Hughes, L., & Stites, R. (2004). A History of Russia: Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.^[35]
• Figes, O. (2022). The Story of Russia. New York: Metropolitan Books.^[36]
• Forsyth, J. (1992). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581–1990. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^{[37][38][39][40][41]}
• Freeze, G. L. (Ed.). (2009). Russia: A History (3rd ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.^[42]
• Gleason A. (Ed.). (2009). A Companion to Russian History. — Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to World History).^[43][44][45]
• Grousset, R. (1970). The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia (N. Walford, Trans.^[a]). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.^[46]
• Hosking, G. (1997). Russia: People and Empire, 1552–1917. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.^[47][48][49]
• Hosking, G. (2001). Russia and the Russians: A History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.^[50]
• Kochan, L., & Abraham, R. (1983). The Making of Modern Russia (2nd ed.). Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books.^[51][52]
• Lieven, D. (2000). Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals. London: John Murray.^[53][54]
• Lieven, D., Perrie, M., & Suny, R. (Eds.). (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia (3 vols.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^{[b][55][56][57]}
• Longworth, P. (2005). Russia: The Once and Future Empire from Pre-History to Putin. New York: St. Martin's Press.
• Mazour, A. G. (1962). Russia: Tsarist and Communist. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand.^[58][59]
• Moss, W. G. (1997–2005). A History of Russia (2 vols.; 2nd ed., 2003–2005). London: Anthem Press.
• Pares, B. (1953). A History of Russia (Definitive ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
• Pipes, R. (1974). Russia Under the Old Regime. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons.^{[60][61][62][63]}
• Poe, M. T. (2003) The Russian Moment in World History. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press.^{[64][65][66][67]}
• Riasanovsky, N. V., & Steinberg, M. D. (2025). A History of Russia (10th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.^[68]
• Shubin, D. H. (2005). A History of Russian Christianity (4 vols.). New York: Algora Publishing.
• Sumner, B. H. (1943). A Short History of Russia. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock.^[69]
• Vernadsky, G. (1943–1969). A History of Russia (5 vols.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.^[c]
• Vernadsky, G. (1961). A History of Russia (6th rev. ed.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Ward, C. J., & Thompson, J. M. (2021). Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus' to the Present (9th ed.). New York: Routledge.
• Wren, M. C., & Stults, T. (2009). The Course of Russian History (5th ed.). Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.^{[70][71][72][73]}

• Alef, G. (1983). Rulers and Nobles in 15th-Century Muscovy. London, UK: Variorum.
• Birnbaum, H., Flier, M. S., & Rowland, D. B. (1984). Medieval Russian Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
• Black, J. (Ed.). (1999). The Development of Russian Military Power, 1453–1815. In European Warfare, 1453–1815. New York: Macmillan.
• Lohr, E. & Poe, M. (Eds.). (2002). The Military and Society in Russia 1450-1917: 1450-1917. Leiden: Brill.^{[74][75][76][77]}
• Martin, J. (2007). Medieval Russia, 980–1584. Cambridge University Press.^[78][79]
• Meyendorff, J. (1997). Byzantium and the Rise of Russia: A Study of Byzantino-Russian Relations in the Fourteenth Century. St Vladimirs Seminary Press.^[80][81]
• Ostrowski, D., & Poe, M. T. (Eds.). (2011). Portraits of Old Russia: Imagined Lives of Ordinary People, 1300-1745. London, UK: Routledge.^[82][83]
• Pelenski, J. (1998). The Contest for the Legacy of Kievan Rus’. New York, NY: East European Monographs, Columbia University.^[84][85]
• Presniakov, A. E. (1970). The Formation of the Great Russian State. A Study of Russian History in the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries. (A. E. Moorhouse, Trans.) Chicago: Quadrangle Books.^[86]

• Lubimenko, I. (1914). The Correspondence of Queen Elizabeth with the Russian Czars. The American Historical Review, 19(3), 525–542.
• Neuberger, J. (2014). Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible as History. The Journal of Modern History, 86(2), 295–334.

• Confino, M. (2009). The New Russian Historiography, and the Old—Some Considerations. History and Memory, 21(2), 7-33.
• Filiushkin, A. I. (2002). Post-Modernism and the Study of the Russian Middle Ages. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 3(1), 89–109.
• Graham, H. (1987). How Do We Know What We Know About Ivan The Terrible? (A Paradigm). Russian History, 14(1/4), 179–198.
• Halperin, C. (1982). Soviet Historiography on Russia and the Mongols. The Russian Review, 41(3), 306–322.
• Karpovich, M. (1943). Klyuchevski and Recent Trends in Russian Historiography. Slavonic and East European Review. American Series, 2(1), 31–39.
• Kivelson, V. A. (2002). On Words, Sources, and Historical Method: Which Truth about Muscovy? Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 3(3), 487–499.
• Kollmann, N. S. (2001). Convergence, Expansion, and Experimentation: Current Trends in Muscovite History-Writing. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2(2), 233–240.
• Kollmann, N. (1987). The Grand Prince In Muscovite Politics: The Problem Of Genre In Sources On Ivan's Minority. Russian History, 14(1/4), 293–313.
• Mazour, A. (1937). Modern Russian Historiography. The Journal of Modern History, 9(2), 169–202.
• Miller, D. (1986). The Kievan Principality in the Century before the Mongol Invasion: An Inquiry into Recent Research and Interpretation. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 10(1/2), 215–240.
• Thaden, E. (1987). Ivan IV In Baltic German Historiography. Russian History, 14(1/4), 377–394.
• Vernadsky, G., & Pushkarev, S. G. (1978). Russian Historiography: A History. Belmont, MA: Nordland Publishing.

A limited number of English language translated primary sources referred to in the above works.^[d]

• Cross, S. H. (2012). The Russian Primary Chronicle: Laurentian Text (O. P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor, Ed.). Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America.
• Kaiser, D. H., & Marker, G. (1994). Reinterpreting Russian History: Readings, 860-1860s (First Edition). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Pliguzov, A. I. (2023). Documentary Sources on the History of Rus´ Metropolitanate: The Fourteenth to the Early Sixteenth Centuries (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
• Zenkovsky, S. A. (Ed.). (1963). Medieval Russia’s epics, chronicles, and tales (First edition). New York, NY: E. P. Dutton.

• Kievan Rus. (2016). Encyclopedia Britannica.
• Auty, R., Obelensky, D., et al. (2010). Companion to Russian Studies (Vol. 1, An Introduction to Russian History; Vol.2, Russian Language and Literature; Vol. 3, An Introduction to Russian Art and Architecture). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Barnes, I., & Lieven, D. (2015). Restless Empire: A Historical Atlas of Russia (Illustrated edition). Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
• Brown, A. et al. (1982). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Channon, J., & Hudson, R. (1995). The Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia. New York: Penguin.
• Gilbert, M. (2007). The Routledge Atlas of Russian History (4th edition). London: Routledge.
• Ivan Katchanovski, Kohut, Z. E., Nebesio, B. Y., & Yurkevich, M. (2013). Historical Dictionary of Ukraine. (Second edition). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
• Langer, L. N. (2001). Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press.
• Lerski, H. (1996). Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
• Magocsi, P. R. (2017). Carpathian Rus': A Historical Atlas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.^[187]
• Millar, J. R. (Ed.). (2004). Encyclopedia of Russian History (4 vols.). New York: Macmillan Library Reference.
• Wieczynski, Joseph L. et al. (Ed.). The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History (1976–...). Academic International Press.

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