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Acknowledgments ..viii
List of Illustrations ix
Introduction xi

Tabula Gratulatoria xvi
A Biographical Essay: The Making of the Historian .1
Daniel H. Kaiser (Grinnell College)
From Publishing to Prokopovich: Gary Marker’s Scholarly Contributions . 17
Valerie A. Kivelson (University of Michigan)

Word

Once Again on Whether Byzantine Law Was Applied to the Administration of the Law in Medieval Rus’ 33
Viktor Zhivov (University of California, Berkeley and Moscow State University)
About Peter the Great’s Ship Predestinatsiia .43
Maria Di Salvo (University of Milan)
Eighteenth-Century Botanical Literature and the Origins of an Elite Russian Gardening Community 55
Christine Ruane (University of Tulsa)
Catherine’s Liberation of the Greeks: High-Minded Discourse and Everyday Realities 71
Elena Smilianskaia (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
A Proletarian Encyclopédie ..90
Daniela Steila (University of Turin)

Image

The Parsuna of Gavrila Fetiev: Can a Picture Speak? ..118
Daniel H. Kaiser (Grinnell College)
Tracking the Travels of Adam Olearius .133
Nancy S. Kollmann (Stanford University)
Catherine the Great and the Art of Collecting: Acquiring the Paintings that Founded the Hermitage ..147
Cynthia Hyla Whittaker (Baruch College and Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Rozanov’s Peter ..172
Simon Dixon (University College London)

Gender

The Question of Women in Power in the Eighteenth Century ..191
E. V. Anisimov (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg)

Businesswomen in Eighteenth-Century Russian Provincial Towns . 206
Alexander Kamenskii (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

Dialogue and Conflict in the Ostroh Principality: The Year 1636 222
Giovanna Brogi Bercoff (University of Milan)
Connecting the Dots: Jewish Mysticism, Ritual Murder, and the Trial of Mendel Beilis .238
Robert Weinberg (Swarthmore College)

Forms of Literacy

Education and the East: The Omsk Asiatic School ..253
Janet M. Hartley (London School of Economics and Political Science) What Should One Teach? A New Approach to Russian Childhood Education as Reflected in Manuscripts from the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century 269
Ol’ga Kosheleva (Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Science)
The Education of Parish Clergy in the Kyiv Eparchy in the 1770s .. 296
Maksym Iaremenko (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)

Civil Society and Politics

“The Opinion of One Ukrainian Landowner”:
V. N. Karazin, Alexander I, and Changing Russia 315
Patrick O’Meara (Durham University)
The Imperial Russian Noble Elite and Westernization: The Family Eizen-fon-Shvartsenberg .. 336
Roger Bartlett (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London)
“Only the principle of public life and the full rights of citizenship”: The Russian Technical Society, the Public
Sphere, and the Revolution of 1905 . 359
Joseph Bradley (University of Tulsa)
Publications of Gary Marker .382
Comp. Daniel H. Kaiser