Maiatskii, D. I. FOREIGN POLICY OF PETER THE GREAT’ RUSSIA IN ARTICLES OF CHINESE HISTORIANS OF THE 1980–1990s // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2020. Vol. 42. No 6. P. 15–23. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2020.512


World history

FOREIGN POLICY OF PETER THE GREAT’ RUSSIA IN ARTICLES OF CHINESE HISTORIANS OF THE 1980–1990s

Maiatskii
D. I. 		Saint Petersburg State University
Keywords:
Peter I
Russia and China
foreign policy of Russia
image of Peter I
imagology
Sino-Russian relations		 Summary: The topic of this article is relevant due to the growing during recent decades (especially after 2013, when the project “One Belt, One Road” was started) interest of Russian and Chinese scholars to study the history of contacts between China and the Russian state. A significant part of the contacts were the political activities of the first Russian emperor Peter the Great (ruled between 1682 and 1725), who made a lot for the formation and development of Sino-Russian regular relations in various fields. The article is also devoted to one of the issues that can be raised while studying the image of Peter the Great in Chinese academic literature in connection with his activities in the field of foreign policy of the Russian state at all. This issue previously has never been examined in Russia or abroad. The article reviews Chinese publications of 1980s and 1990s, which investigate the foreign policy of Peter I in China. The characteristics of his diplomacy are revealed. The issues concerned are distinguished, classified and observed in details. In several cases an attempt is being made to determine the sources of peculiarities of the Chinese common point of view on Peter I. The article is intended to attract the attention of researchers of the problems of the image of Russia in China.



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