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This book investigates Russia's transformation into a European Power by way of the activities of the tsarist translator and official Andrei Vinius, who became a

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This book explores diplomacy and ritual practice at a moment of new departures and change in both early modern Europe and Russia.

In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading world of Siberia and the careers of merchan