Dutch Mercenaries in the Tsar’s Service: The Van Bockhoven Clan
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Keywords
Military Revolution, Dutch Republic, Muscovy, mercenaries, migration
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1179/0729247314Z.00000000032
Abstract
Historians have pointed out that the Dutch played a key role in Europe’s Military Revolution. Neither the Dutch role as the foremost international arms traders of the seventeenth century nor the significance of Dutch officers in seventeenth-century militaries has been very much studied. This essay suggests that the Dutch were rather more influential in Russia’s adoption of some of the key innovations of the Military Revolution than the historiography of late Muscovy has acknowledged. It does this by investigating the importance for Russia’ military modernization of a Dutch officers’ clan, that of the van Bockhovens. They provide a telling case study of the extent of this Dutch influence.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
War & Society, v. 33, issue 2, p. 59-79
Scholar Commons Citation
Boterbloem, Kees, "Dutch Mercenaries in the Tsar’s Service: The Van Bockhoven Clan" (2014). History Faculty Publications. 134.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/hty_facpub/134
