Valerie Kivelson is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Autocracy in the Provinces: Russian Political Culture and the Gentry in the Seventeenth Century and the coeditor of Orthodox Russia: Studies in Belief and Practice.

"Cartographies of Tsardom is a fascinating interdisciplinary book that breaks new ground in assessing the roles of history, geography, social structure, and religion in Early Modern Russia. Valerie Kivelson provides a compelling argument for using visual material as evidence of a consultative rather than dictatorial autocracy in Early Modern Russia. New territorial maps and seemingly mundane maps of land disputes turn out to reflect a center-periphery dynamic of nuanced interaction rather than one-sided dominance, a relationship reiterated in contemporary court cases and government policy. In the charting of physical space, provincial Russians appear determined to mark the value of their own sociopolitical status, all the while conceiving their place in the world within an articulated model of paradise."

• Introduction1. Nesting Narratives: The History and Historiography of Muscovite Cartography2. Engaging with the Law: Cartography, Autocracy, and Muscovite Legality3. Signs in Space: Landscape and Property in a Serf-Owning Society4. "The Souls of the Righteous in a Bright Place": Landscape and Orthodoxy in Seventeenth-Century Russian Maps5. Messages in the Land: Siberian Maps and Providential Narratives6. "Exalted and Glorified to the Ends of the Earth": Christianity and Colonialism7. "Myriad, Countless Foreigners: Siberia's Human Geography and Muscovite Conceptions of Empire8. Under the Sovereign's Mighty Hand: Colonial Subjects and Muscovite Imperial PoliciesConclusion

Valerie Kivelson is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Autocracy in the Provinces: Russian Political Culture and the Gentry in the Seventeenth Century and the coeditor of Orthodox Russia: Studies in Belief and Practice.

"Cartographies of Tsardom is a fascinating interdisciplinary book that breaks new ground in assessing the roles of history, geography, social structure, and religion in Early Modern Russia. Valerie Kivelson provides a compelling argument for using visual material as evidence of a consultative rather than dictatorial autocracy in Early Modern Russia. New territorial maps and seemingly mundane maps of land disputes turn out to reflect a center-periphery dynamic of nuanced interaction rather than one-sided dominance, a relationship reiterated in contemporary court cases and government policy. In the charting of physical space, provincial Russians appear determined to mark the value of their own sociopolitical status, all the while conceiving their place in the world within an articulated model of paradise."

• Introduction1. Nesting Narratives: The History and Historiography of Muscovite Cartography2. Engaging with the Law: Cartography, Autocracy, and Muscovite Legality3. Signs in Space: Landscape and Property in a Serf-Owning Society4. "The Souls of the Righteous in a Bright Place": Landscape and Orthodoxy in Seventeenth-Century Russian Maps5. Messages in the Land: Siberian Maps and Providential Narratives6. "Exalted and Glorified to the Ends of the Earth": Christianity and Colonialism7. "Myriad, Countless Foreigners: Siberia's Human Geography and Muscovite Conceptions of Empire8. Under the Sovereign's Mighty Hand: Colonial Subjects and Muscovite Imperial PoliciesConclusion

Valerie Kivelson is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Autocracy in the Provinces: Russian Political Culture and the Gentry in the Seventeenth Century and the coeditor of Orthodox Russia: Studies in Belief and Practice.

"Cartographies of Tsardom is a fascinating interdisciplinary book that breaks new ground in assessing the roles of history, geography, social structure, and religion in Early Modern Russia. Valerie Kivelson provides a compelling argument for using visual material as evidence of a consultative rather than dictatorial autocracy in Early Modern Russia. New territorial maps and seemingly mundane maps of land disputes turn out to reflect a center-periphery dynamic of nuanced interaction rather than one-sided dominance, a relationship reiterated in contemporary court cases and government policy. In the charting of physical space, provincial Russians appear determined to mark the value of their own sociopolitical status, all the while conceiving their place in the world within an articulated model of paradise."

• Introduction1. Nesting Narratives: The History and Historiography of Muscovite Cartography2. Engaging with the Law: Cartography, Autocracy, and Muscovite Legality3. Signs in Space: Landscape and Property in a Serf-Owning Society4. "The Souls of the Righteous in a Bright Place": Landscape and Orthodoxy in Seventeenth-Century Russian Maps5. Messages in the Land: Siberian Maps and Providential Narratives6. "Exalted and Glorified to the Ends of the Earth": Christianity and Colonialism7. "Myriad, Countless Foreigners: Siberia's Human Geography and Muscovite Conceptions of Empire8. Under the Sovereign's Mighty Hand: Colonial Subjects and Muscovite Imperial PoliciesConclusion