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Seeing Muscovy Anew Nancy Shields Kollmann S M A eeing uScovy new P —i —c oliticS nStitutionS ulture e H n S K SSAyS in onor of Ancy HieldS ollMAnn e dited by M S. f icHAel lier v A. K Alerie ivelSon e M riKA onAHAn d r Aniel owlAnd Bloomington, Indiana, 2017 Each contribution © 2017 by its author. All rights reserved. Cover design by Michael S. Flier. ISBN: 978-089357-481-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Flier, Michael S., editor of compilation. | Kivelson, Valerie A. (Valerie Ann), editor of compilation. | Monahan, Erika, editor of compilation. | Rowland, Daniel B. (Daniel Bruce), 1941- editor of compilation. | Kollmann, Nancy Shields, 1950- honoree. Title: Seeing Muscovy anew : politics - institutions - culture : essays in honor of Nancy Shields Kollmann / edited by Michael S. Flier, Valerie A. Kivelson, Erika Monahan, Daniel Rowland. Description: Bloomington, Indiana : Slavica, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: LCCN 2017014721 | ISBN 9780893574819 Subjects: LCSH: Russia--History--Period of Consolidation, 1462-1605. | Russia--History--1533-1613. | Russia--History--1613-1689. | Russia--History--1689-1801. | Ukraine--History--1340-1648. | Ukraine--History--1648-1775. Classification: LCC DK100 .S38 2017 | DDC 947/.04--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017014721 Slavica Publishers [Tel.] 1-812-856-4186 Indiana University [Toll-free] 1-877-SLAVICA 1430 N. Willis Drive [Fax] 1-812-856-4187 Bloomington, IN 47404-2146 [Email] [email protected] USA [www] http://www.slavica.com/ Contents Introduction Seeing Muscovy Anew: Politics—Institutions—Culture .................................. 3 Nancy Shields Kollmann: Scholar, Teacher, Mentor ......................................... 11 Nancy Shields Kollmann: Complete Bibliography .......................................... 15 I. The Politics of Rule Sergei Bogatyrev Novgorodian Regnal Lists: A Reconsideration ......................................... 29 Charles J. Halperin Ivan the Terrible and Muscovite Political Culture: Cutting the Gordian Knot ............................................................................. 49 Valerie A. Kivelson How Bad Was Ivan the Terrible? The Oprichnik Oath and Satanic Spells in Foreigners’ Accounts ....................................................... 67 Russell E. Martin “To Serve Without Regard to Place”: Precedence and Royal In-Laws at the Weddings of Russia’s Rulers, 1525–1671 ................ 85 vi Contents II. Conflicted Belief David Goldfrank By Dishonor in a Bind—Imperatives and Paradoxes in the Writings of Iosif Volotskii ................................................................. 107 Donald Ostrowski Unresolved Evidentiary Issues Concerning Rus´ Heretics of the Late Fifteenth−Early Sixteenth Centuries ...................... 123 III. Testimony of the Visual Michael S. Flier Murder Most Foul: Picturing the Death of Andrei Bogoliubskii ........... 143 Daniel Rowland Advice, Advisers, and Courtiers: Decision Making and Advice in the Royal Book of the Illustrated Chronicle Compilation ....................................................... 159 Gary Marker A World of Visual Splendor: The Illustrated Texts of Karion Istomin .................................................... 173 Isolde Thyrêt Saint Stephen of Perm´ and the Dual Faith Phenomenon in Muscovite Texts and Images .......................................... 189 IV. Institutions Outside the Box Janet Martin Women, the Pomest´e System, and Muscovite State Authority in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century ............................. 209 Contents vii Paul Bushkovitch Words and Things: Contemporary Translations of the Russian Institutional Vocabulary (Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries) ................ 227 Eve Levin Prison or Asylum: The Involuntary Commitment of the Insane to Monasteries in Early Modern Russia ....................................... 245 Alexander Kamenskii Honor and Dishonor in Eighteenth-Century Russia .............................. 263 V. Empire and Outer Spaces Brian J. Boeck Calculating the Casualties of Forced Labor: Azov as a Harbinger of Petrine Policies ................................................... 275 Erika Monahan Salt Wars and Salted Coffee: At Home with the Filat´evs ...................... 285 Georg B. Michels When Will the Turks Attack? Habsburg Espionage and Actionable Intelligence in the Age of Grand Vezir Ahmed Köprülü (1661–76) ................................ 303 Serhii Plokhy Princes and Cossacks: Putting Ukraine on the Map of Europe ............ 323 Martina Winkler Paths, Surfaces and Borders: Mapping the Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century ............................................. 339 Introduction

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