title: Muscovy and the World: An Empire and Its Limits. Essays in honor of Valerie Kivelson
abstract: The essays in this volume vary in content over time and space, forming a fitting tribute to Valerie Kivelson, the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History and Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan. Michigan. Her scholarship has inspired the contributors to explore the center and edges of Muscovy and its Petrine emergence as the Russian Empire, how it imagined itself and how others imagined it. In recent years the study of empires has commanded considerable scholarly 
journal: Slavica eBooks