Prof. David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, FRSC

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye recently retired as Professor of Russian history at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, his research interests focus on 18th- and 19th-century Russian cultural, intellectual, diplomatic and military history. Schimmelpenninck is the author of, among other, Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan(DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001) and Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). Schimmelpenninck is currently writing a book about tsarist expansion into Central Asia, “Russia’s Great Game: The Struggle for Mastery in Central Asia.” He is also coediting a volume on “The International History of Russia’s Great War” for the Russia’s Great War and Revolution series.