Word and Image in Russian History : Essays in Honor of Gary Marker.

Front -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Tabula Gratulatoria -- A Biographical Essay: The Making of the Historian -- From Publishing to Prokopovich: Gary Marker's Scholarly Contributions -- Once Again on Whether Byzantine Law Was Applied to the Administration of the Law in Medieval Rus' -- About Peter the Great's Ship -- Eighteenth-Century Botanical Literature and the Origins of an Elite Russian Gardening Community1 -- Catherine's Liberation of the Greeks: High-Minded Discourse and Everyday Realities1 -- A Proletarian -- Catherine the Great and the Art of Collecting: Acquiring the Paintings that Founded the Hermitage -- Rozanov's Peter -- The Question of Women in Power in the Eighteenth Century -- Businesswomen in Eighteenth-Century Russian Provincial Towns1 -- Dialogue and Conflict in the Ostroh Principality: The Year 1636 -- Connecting the Dots: Jewish Mysticism, Ritual Murder, and the Trial of Mendel Beilis -- Education and the East: The Omsk Asiatic School -- What Should One Teach? A New Approach to Russian Childhood Education as Reflected in Manuscripts from the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century* -- The Education of Parish Clergy in the Kyiv Eparchy in the 1770s -- "The Opinion of One Ukrainian Landowner": V. N. Karazin, Alexander I, and Changing Russia -- The Imperial Russian Noble Elite and Westernization: The Family Eizen-fon- Shvartsenberg -- "Only the principle of public life and the full rights of citizenship": The Russian Technical Society, the Public Sphere, and the Revolution of 1905 -- Publications of Gary Marker.

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