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an empire and its limits : essays in honor of Valerie Kivelson
vii, 303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
"The fifteen essays in this volume, a tribute to historian Valerie Kivelson, explore the center and edges of Muscovy and its Petrine emergence as the Russian Empire, how it imagined itself and how others imagined it"--
Foreign Identity -- The Iconography of Power and Belief -- Bureaucracy and Imperial Control -- Religion and Sociopolitical Limits -- The Ruler in Perception and Depiction -- Muscovite Ideology in the Twenty-First Century.
edited by Michael S. Flier, Nancy S. Kollmann, Daniel Rowland, Erika Monahan.
Collection of essays by Simon Franklin and 12 others.