Russian Contexts
  • taiga
  • steppe
  • black-soil region (chernozem)
  • mir / obshchina
  • prostranstvo
  • “surplus-scarcity”
The Great State of Kiev
Introduction to Eastern Orthodoxy
  • Emperor Constantine
  • “councilarity” (or, sobornost’)
  • Pentarchy
  • stylites
  • The Great Schism (1054)
  • iconographic perspectives (inconsistent and inverse)
  • Andrei Rublev
The Mongol Yoke / Rise of Muscovy
  • Rurikid dynasty
  • Golden Horde (Kipchik Khanate)
  • Silk Road
  • yarlyk (patent)
  • vykhod (tribute)
  • Aleksandr Nevskii
  • Daniilovichi
  • Ivan III (r. 1462-1505)
  • votchina (inherited landed estate)
  • Church of the Dormition
Russia Between East and West
  • Ivan IV (Ivan “the Terrible”) (r. 1533-1584)
  • Conquests of Kazan (1552) and Astrakhan (1556)
  • strel’tsy
  • Livonian War (1558-1582)
  • oprichina
  • Boris Godunov
  • foreign settlement
  • “Time of Troubles”
  • pishchal’niki
  • Ostrog Bible (1581)