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Contents Acknowledgments / ix Chronology / xi Introduction: Russia’s People of Empire stephen m. norris and willard sunderland 1 1. Ermak Timofeevich (1530s/40s–1585) willard sunderland 17 2. Simeon Bekbulatovich (?–1616) donald ostrowski 27 3. Timofei Ankudinov (1617?–1653) maureen perrie 37 4. Gavril Romanovich Nikitin (?–1698) erika monahan 47 5. Boris Ivanovich Korybut-Kurakin (1676–1727) ernest a. zitser 59 6. Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765) michael d. gordin 71 7. Catherine the Great (1729–1796) hilde hoogenboom 81 8. Petr Ivanovich Bagration (1765–1812) sean pollock 93 9. Johannes Ambrosius Rosenstrauch (1768–1835) alexander m. martin 105 10. Imam Shamil (1797–1871) rebecca gould 117 11. Zalumma Agra, the “Star of the East” (fl. 1860s) charles king 129 12. Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) theodore r. weeks 139 13. Archbishop Innokentii (Borisov, 1800–1857) mara kozelsky 149 14. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809–1852) edyta bojanowska 159 15. Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894) richard stites 169 16. Aleksandr Borodin (1833–1887) david schimmelpenninck van der oye 179 17. Kutlu-Mukhammad Batyr-Gireevich Tevkelev (1850–?) and Family charles steinwedel 189 18. Petr Badmaev (1851–1920) david mcdonald 199 19. Ekaterina Sabashnikova-Baranovskaia (1859–?) barbara alpern engel 211 20. Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867–1951) bradley d. woodworth 221 viii Contents 21. Mathilde Kshesinskaia (1872–1971) krista sigler 233 22. Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) ronald grigor suny 243 23. Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) alexandra harrington 255 24. Aleksandr Germano (1893–1955) brigid o’keeffe 265 25. Lazar' Moiseevich Kaganovich (1893–1991) hiroaki kuromiya 275 26. Dziga Vertov (1896–1954) john mackay 283 27. Mukhtar Auezov (1897–1961) michael rouland 297 28. Jahon Obidova (1900–1967) marianne kamp 309 29. Olzhas Suleimenov (1936–) marlène laruelle 319 30. Boris Akunin (Grigorii Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, 1956–) stephen m. norris 327 31. Vladislav Surkov (1964–) karen dawisha 339 Contributors / 351 Index / 353 ...

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