The Production and Consumption of Medical Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Russia: The Apothecary Chancery
Journal: UCL Discovery (University College London)
Year: 2013

This thesis explores the importance of Western knowledge at the Russian court from the 1620s to the 1700s. After the disorder of the Time of Troubles the Russian court, under pressure from ambitious neighbours, sought to use elements of Western European learning and skill to further reconstruction. Reconstruction developed into an expansion of state powers over Russian life, facilitated by the growing system of courtly departments that were partly staffed by foreign experts. Consequently, this t