Featuring a number of pioneering essays by the internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov, this collection includes a number of essays appearing in English for the first time. Focusing on several of the most interesting and problematic as…
Introduction: The history of a story -- Permutations: victim, villain, scavenger -- Trauerspiel and counterhistory in a time of palace coups -- The rebel, the sycophant, and the epigones -- Arbitrariness and expedience meet legality, or the fatal flaws of the well-tempered autoc…
Is each moment in history unique, or do essential situations repeat themselves? The traumatic events associated with the man who reigned as Tsar Dmitry have haunted the Russian imagination for four hundred years. Was Dmitry legitimate, the last scion of the House of Rurik, or wa…
