Education
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1972.
Selected Bibliography
"Religion and Regional Identites: the Case of Viatka and the Miracle-Working Icon of St. Nicholas Velikoretskii," forthcoming in Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte, 2004.
"The Physical and Human Geography of Inner Asia in the Early 1920s Through the Eyes and Lens of C. P. Skrine," forthcoming in Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia, Vol. 6 (2004).
"The Authoritarian Politics of Central Asia," in Donald Bragaw and Linda Arkin, eds., The Democratic Process: Promises and Challenges: A resource guide produced for the Democracy Education Exchange Project (DEEP) (The American Forum for Global Education, 2003), pp. 37-53.
Vagabond Life: The Caucasus Writings of George Kennan. (Contributor; co-editor), Ed. with Intr. and Afterword by Frith Maier, with contributions by Daniel C. Waugh (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2003), 266 pp.
Istoriia odnoi knigi: Viatka i "ne-sovremennost'" russkoi kul'tury v epokhu Petra Velikogo (The History of a Book: Viatka and the Non-Modernity of Russian Culture in the Age of Peter the Great) (St. Petersburg: Izdatel'stvo "Dmitrii Bulanin," 2003), 395 pp.
"We Have Never Been Modern: Approaches to the Study of Russia in the Age of Peter the Great," Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, N.F., Bd. 49, H. 3 (2001), Ss.321-345.
Civil Society in Central Asia (co-editor with M. Holt Ruffin), (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999). 331 pp.
"Novoe o 'Povesti o strane Viatskoi'" (New Material Concerning the "Tale about the Viatka Land"), in Evropeiskii Sever v kul'turno-istoricheskom protsesse (K 625-letiiu goroda Kirova), ed. V. V. Nizov (Kirov, 1999), pp. 350-380.
"The 'Mysterious and Terrible Karatash Gorges': Notes and Documents on the Explorations by Stein and Skrine," The Geographical Journal, Vol. 165, No. 3 (1999), pp. 306-320
"K izucheniiu fal'sifikatsii pis'mennykh istochnikov po istorii srednevekovoi Rossii," (Toward the Study of the Falsification of Written Sources for the History of Medieval Russia), Russian History, Vol. 25, Nos 1-2 (1998)
"Exploring the 'Kongur Alps'. Unknown Side of Mustagh Ata," The Himalayan Journal, Vol 54 (1998), pp. 25-32, plus 4 photographs.
"K izucheniiu fal'sifikatsii pis'mennykh istochnikov po istorii srednevekovoi Rossii," Svornik statei, posviashchennykh semidesiatipiatiletiiu so dnia rozhdeniia A. A. Zimina. Moscow, 1997.
"K izucheniiu viatskogo letopisaniia." Pamiati la. S. Lur'e. Sbornik statei i publikatsii. St Petersburg, 1997.
"Anatolii's Miscellany: It's Origins and Migration." Harvard Ukrainian Studies XIX (1995[1997]).
"The Unsolved Problem of Tsar Ivan IV's Library." Russian History 14/1-4 (1987): 395-408.
"The Library of Aleskei Mikhailovich." Forschungen zur osteuropaischen Geschishte Bd. 38 (1986): 299-324.
Essays in Honor of A. A. Zimin. Editor and contributor. Columbus, Ohio, 1985.
"Ioannikii Galiatovs'kyi's Polemics against Islam and their Muscovite Translations." Harvard Ukrainian Studies III/IV (1980): 908-19.
"News of the False Messiah: Reports on Shabbetai Zevi in Ukraine and Muscovy." Jewish Social Studies XLI 3/4 (1979): 301-22.
"Two Unpublished Muscovite Chronicles." Oxford Slavonic Papers, N.S., XII (1979): 1-31.
The Great Turkes Defianes: On the History of the Apocryphal Correspondence of the Ottoman Sultan in its Muscovite and Russian Variants. With a foreword by Academician Dmitrii Sergeevich Likhachev. Columbus, Ohio: 1978.
"Azbuka znakami lits: Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Privy Chancellery Archive." Oxford Slavonic Papers, N.S., X (1977): 46-50.
Slavianskie rukopisi Sobraniia grafa F. A. Tolstogo: Materialy k istorii sobraniia i ukazateli nyneshnikh i prezhnikh shifrov. Zug: Switzerland, 1977; second edition, Leningrad, 1981.
"K izucheniiu istorii rukopisnogo sobraniia P. M. Stroeva." Trudy Otdela drevnerusskoi literatury. Instituta russkoi literatury Akademii nauk SSSR XXX (1976): 184-203; XXXII (1977): 133-64.
"Neizvestnyi pamiatnik drevnerusskoi literatury: 'Gramota gosudaria tsaria i velikogo kniazia Ivana Vasil'evicha vsea Rusii k Stepanu, koroliu pol'skomu.'" Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1971 god (1972): 357-61.
Research in Progress
Istoriia odnoi knigi: K izucheniiu knizhnoi kul'tury Viatki v nachale XVII v. Monograph on the book culture of Viatka (Khlynov, Kirov) in the time of Tsar Peter the Great. Based on a major manuscript discovery and extensive work in regional history publications. The largest section of the book reexamines the history of Viatka chronicle writing. The book revises previous views of Viatka as the archetypical provincial backwater of Russia and provides insights into the spread of "westernization" under Peter the Great.
The writings and photographs of C. P. Skrine. Several articles and an edited volume of letters and photographs, from the archive of Sir Clarmont P. Skrine, who was British consul in Kashgar (Xinjiang, China) in 1922-24. The archival material is located in the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library, in the Royal Geographical Society (both, London) and in a private collection in Scotland. The publications will cover his official consular activities and his explorations in previously unknown mountain areas and will be of interest to historians of "Great Game" politics and to those studying the local cultures of the region.
