1. On Petrine reforms and the navy in particular, see James Cracraft, The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), pp. 40–96
2. E. J. Phillips, The Founding of Russia’s Navy: Peter the Great and the Azov Fleet, 1688–1714 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995).
3. See Roy MacLeod, ‘On Visiting the Moving Metropolis: Reflections on the Architecture of Imperial Science’, in Scientific Colonialism: A Cross-Cultural Comparison, ed. by Nathan Reingold and Marc Rothenberg (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1987), pp. 217–49
4. Michael H. Fisher, Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain, 1600–1857 (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2006)
5. Kapil Raj, Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650–1900 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).