Cartographies of Tsardom

Toward the end of the sixteenth century, and throughout the seventeenth, thinking in spatial terms assumed extraordinary urgency among Russia's ruling elites. The two great developments of this era in Russian history-the enserfment of the peasantry and th

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

1

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Nesting Narratives: The History and Historiography of Muscovite Cartography

13

(16)

Engaging with the Law: Cartography, Autocracy, and Muscovite Legality

29

(28)

Signs in Space: Landscape and Property in a Serf-Owning Society

57

(42)

``The Souls of the Righteous in a Bright Place'': Landscape and Orthodoxy in Seventeenth-Century Russian Maps

99

(18)

Messages in the Land: Siberian Maps and Providential Narratives

117

(32)

``Exalted and Glorified to the Ends of the Earth'': Christianity and Colonialism

149

(22)

``Myriad, Countless Foreigners'': Siberia's Human Geography and Muscovite Conceptions of Empire

171

(23)

Under the Sovereign's Mighty Hand: Colonial Subjects and Muscovite Imperial Policies

194

(16)

Conclusion

210

(5)

Notes

215

(26)

Bibliography

241

(16)

Index

257

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