Anarchy and Authority: Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia

From the ascent of Peter the Great to the Russian Revolution. From the Battle of the Boyne to the Easter Rising. Between these epochal events were two astounding centuries of war, diplomacy, intrigue, innovation and international radical political movements, the reverberations of which are still felt in both Ireland and the former territories of the Russian empire today.

In Anarchy and Authority, readers follow contemporaneous accounts of Irish men and women who ventured into the Russian emp...