Russian Translations of Foreign Military Books in the 17th Century

What is it about?

The article is dedicated to how the Western books on military affairs (infantry drill, gunnery, fortification, martial law etc.) were read in the 17th-century Russian tsardom. It examines the history of translation, manuscript circulation, readership and practical implementation of these texts. European treatises on warfare might have been influential in Russia in the period not only as drivers of military reforms but predominantly in the context of an intellectual opening of the country towards the Western science and book culture.

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