Chrissidis, Nikolaos A.,

An academy at the court of the tsars Greek scholars and Jesuit education in early modern Russia / [electronic resource] : Nikolaos Chrissidis. - First edition. - DeKalb, IL : NIU Press, [2015] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : of Grecophiles and Latinophiles : historiographical excursus -- Limning the commonwealth : of Greeks and Russians in the seventeenth century -- The wandering Greeks : from Italy to Russia -- Establishing an academy in Moscow -- The curriculum in Action I : the rhetoric course -- The curriculum in Action II : investigating the heavens -- Rhetoric, physics, and court culture in late seventeenth-century Muscovy -- Conclusion : education, westernization, and secularization in early modern Russia.

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Leichoudēs, Sōphronios, 1652-1730.
Leichoudēs, Iōannikios, 1633-1717.


Jesuits--Education--History--Russia--17th century.
Moskovskai͡a slavi͡ano-greko-latinskai͡a akademii͡a--History.


Greeks--History--Russia--Moscow--17th century.
Education, Higher--History--Russia--Moscow--17th century.


Electronic books.

LA839.5.M68 / C47 2015