Table of Contents
Chronology of Old Russia from 1304 to 1725 vii
Map of Muscovy xxii
Introduction Donald Ostrowski xxiii
I Members of Ruling Families
1 Anna Koltovskaia: A Russian Tsaritsa Russell E. Martin 3
2 Memoir of a Tatar Prince: Ismail ibn Ahmed Donald Ostrowski 14
3 Gleb Vasilievich: A Prince in Fourteenth-Century Yaroslavl Lawrence N. Langer 24
II Government Servitors
4 A Dialogue Between Two Seventeenth-Century Boyars Marshall T. Poe 37
5 The Power of Knowledge: Vita of the Secretary Andrei Putilov Sergei Bogatyrev 44
6 Larka the Clerk Peter B. Brown 56
III Military Personnel
7 "My Brilliant Career": Autobiography of a Career Army Officer Carol B. Stevens 71
8 The Life of a Foreign Mercenary Officer W.M. Reger IV 81
9 Vasilii Zotov: A Military Colonist on the Southern Frontier Brian Davies 92
IV Church Prelates
10 A Seventeenth-Century Prelate: Metropolitan Pavel of Sarai and the Don Cathy J. Potter 105
11 Vasilii Kalika, Archbishop of Novgorod (r. 1330-52) Michael C. Paul 116
V Monks
12 Holy Images for the Grand Prince Michael S. Flier 129
13 Three Scholars at the Kirillo-Belozersk Monastery: A Teacher, a Student, and a Librarian Robert Romanchuk 139
14 Greeks in Seventeenth-Century Russia Nikolaos A. Chrissidis 154
15 Akakii Balandin of Novgorod-Volotovo and Solovki Monasteries (1526-95) David M. Goldfrank 165
VI Provincial Landowners, Artisans, and Townspeople
16 Provincial Landowners as Litigants Nancy S. Kollmann 179
17 Artisans: The Prokofiev Family J.T. Kotilaine 188
18 A Poor Townswoman Accused of Witchcraft Valerie Kivelson 198
VII Siberian Explorer and Trader
19 S.U. Remezov, Cossack Adventurer, and the Opening of Siberia Christoph Witzenrath 209
20 A Siberian Trader: Urasko Kaibulin Erika Monahan 222
VIII Peasants, Slaves, Serfs, and Holy Fools
21 The Parfiev Family: Northern Free Peasants Jennifer B. Spock 233
22 Muscovite Lives: A Slave and a Serf Richard Hellie 243
23 Dunia, a Fool for Christ Hugh M. Olmsted 252
Glossary Hugh M. Olmsted 271
On the Use and History of Personal Names in Muscovy Hugh M. Olmsted 279
Transcription and Pronunciation Guide for Russian Names Hugh M. Olmsted 291
About the Editors and the Contributors 301
Index 307
