Portraits of Old Russia: Imagined Lives of

This collection of imaginative biographical portraits depicts representatives of every social group in Old Russia--princes, boyars, metropolitans, monks, icon painters, artisans, landowners, free peasants, serfs, and slaves--including Russians, Tatars, Cossacks, and Greeks. Some of the portraits are reconstructions of known individuals, others are composites, but all are true to their time and place. The contributing historians undertook this collaborative project as a way to bring Old Russia vibrantly to life for students and other readers. The volume includes a pronunciation guide, a glossary, a chronology (1304-1725), annotated reading lists, and illustrations.

Chronology of Old Russia from 1304 to 1725	p. vii
Map of Muscovy	p. xxii
Introduction	p. xxiii
Members of Ruling Families
Anna Koltovskaia: A Russian Tsaritsa	p. 3
Memoir of a Tatar Prince: Ismail ibn Ahmed	p. 14
Gleb Vasilievich: A Prince in Fourteenth-Century Yaroslavl	p. 24
Government Servitors
A Dialogue Between Two Seventeenth-Century Boyars	p. 37
The Power of Knowledge: Vita of the Secretary Andrei Putilov	p. 44
Larka the Clerk	p. 56
Military Personnel
ôMy Brilliant Careerö: Autobiography of a Career Army Officer	p. 71
The Life of a Foreign Mercenary Officer	p. 81
Vasilii Zotov: A Military Colonist on the Southern Frontier	p. 92
Church Prelates
A Seventeenth-Century Prelate: Metropolitan Pavel of Sarai and the Don	p. 105
Vasilii Kalika, Archbishop of Novgorod (r. 1330-52)	p. 116
Monks
Holy Images for the Grand Prince	p. 129
Three Scholars at the Kirillo-Belozersk Monastery: A Teacher, a Student, and a Librarian	p. 139
Greeks in Seventeenth-Century Russia	p. 154
Akakii Balandin of Novgorod-Volotovo and Solovki Monasteries (1526-95)	p. 165
Provincial Landowners, Artisans, and Townspeople
Provincial Landowners as Litigants	p. 179
Artisans: The Prokofiev Family	p. 188
A Poor Townswoman Accused of Witchcraft	p. 198
Siberian Explorer and Trader
S.U. Remezov, Cossack Adventurer, and the Opening of Siberia	p. 209
A Siberian Trader: Urasko Kaibulin	p. 222
Peasants, Slaves, Serfs, and Holy Fools
The Parfiev Family: Northern Free Peasants	p. 233
Muscovite Lives: A Slave and a Serf	p. 243
Dunia, a Fool for Christ	p. 252
Glossary	p. 271
On the Use and History of Personal Names in Muscovy	p. 279
Transcription and Pronunciation Guide for Russian Names	p. 291
About the Editors and the Contributors	p. 301
Index	p. 307
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Portraits of Old Russia: Imagined Lives of Ordinary People, 1300-1745

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