Jabarkan Bacaan tambahan dari Otokrasi Tsaris

Paul Dukes, The Making of Russian Absolutism, 1613–1801, Longman, 1986

Marshall T. Poe, "Russian despotism": the origins and dissemination of an early modern commonplace. Thesis (Ph. D. in History). University of California, Berkeley, 1993.

Hugh Ragsdale, The Russian Tragedy: The Burden of History, M.E. Sharpe, 1996, ISBN 1-56324-755-0

Richard Pipes, Russia under the Old Regime, (Penguin 1995), ISBN 978-0-14-024768-8