3.VasiliO.Kliuchevsky,ACourseinRussianHistory:TheSeventeenthCentury(Armonk,N.Y.:M.E.Sharpe,1994),366.SeealsoHosking,Russia,4.
4.JohnP.LeDonne,TheRussianEmpireandtheWorld,1700–1917:TheGeopoliticsofExpansionandContainment
(NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,1997),348.
5.HenryAdams,TheEducationofHenryAdams(1907;NewYork:ModernLibrary,1931),439.
6.OrlandoFiges,NatashasDance:ACulturalHistoryofRussia(NewYork:Picador,2002),376–77.
7.1864年俄国军队开进今天的乌兹别克斯坦时，外交大臣戈尔恰科夫把俄国的扩张定义为完全靠自身力量驱动的平定周边地区的一项永久性的义务：
国家（俄国）因此必须做出一项抉择：要么放弃这一不间断的努力，从而导致边界地区动乱不已，难以实现繁荣、安全和文化进步；要么不断向荒蛮之地纵深挺进，每向前走一步，长途跋涉造成的困难就会增大一分，这不是出于野心，而是出于紧迫的需要。最难的是不需要再往前走。
GeorgeVerdansky,ed.,ASourceBookforRussianHistory:FromEarlyTimesto1917(NewHaven,Conn.:YaleUniversityPress,1972),3:610.
8.MarquisdeCustine,EmpireoftheCzar,230.现代学者对此仍在进行研究。See,forexample,CharlesJ.Halperin,RussiaandtheGoldenHorde:TheMongolImpactonMedievalRussianHistory(Indianapolis:IndianaUniversityPress,1985);PaulHarrisonSilfen,TheInfluenceoftheMongolsonRussia:ADimensionalHistory(Hicksville,N.Y.:ExpositionPress,1974).
9.彼得大帝事必躬亲的霸气作风令西欧国家感到惊奇。他在荷兰时去码头当木匠，在伦敦时拆卸钟表，再把它们修好。他还尝试牙科医学和解剖学领域里的新成果，令他的随从提心吊胆。SeeVirginiaCowles,TheRomanovs(NewYork:Harper&Row,1971),33–37;RobertK.Massie,PetertheGreat(NewYork:BallantineBooks,1980),188–89,208.
10.B.H.Sumner,PetertheGreatandtheEmergenceofRussia(NewYork:CollierBooks,1962),45.
11.Cowles,Romanovs,26–28;Sumner,PetertheGreatandtheEmergenceofRussia,27;Figes,NatashasDance,4–6.
12.CatherineII,Nakaz(Instruction)totheLegislativeCommissionof1767–68,inDmytryshyn,ImperialRussia,80.
13.MariaLipman,LevGudkov,LashaBakradze,andThomasdeWaal,TheStalinPuzzle:DecipheringPost-SovietPublicOpinion(Washington,D.C.:CarnegieEndowmentforInternationalPeace,2013)（对当代俄罗斯人的民意调查显示，47%的人接受以下说法：斯大林是一位睿智的领导人，他使苏联繁荣强大。30%的俄罗斯人认同以下说法：我国人民永远需要一位像斯大林一样的领导人。他将现身恢复秩序。）
14.CatherineII,Nakaz(Instruction)totheLegislativeCommissionof1767–68,80.
15.NikolaiKaramzinonCzarAlexanderI,asquotedinW.BruceLincoln,TheRomanovs:AutocratsofAlltheRussias(NewYork:AnchorBooks,1981),489.
16.Halperin,RussiaandtheGoldenHorde,126.
17.FyodorDostoevsky,AWritersDiary(1881),asquotedinFiges,NatashasDance,308.