Valerie A. Kivelson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History and Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, USA. She is the author of Russia’s Empires (2016; with Ronald Suny), Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (2006) and Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (2013). She is also the co-editor of Russian Empire (2023; with Joan Neuberger and Sergei Kozlov) and Picturing Russia (2008; with Joan Neuberger).

This is lively and innovative contribution to historical thinking about Early Modern Russia. Rooted in original scholarship, packed with engaging material, the book takes us on a series of journeys into the diverse and powerful ways in which images work in (and on) the world.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Imagining Empire: Making Muscovy Imperial2. Explosion of Images: The Litsevoi letopisnyi svod (Illustrated Historical Chronicle)3. Picturing a Place in the World: Between Europe and the Steppe4. Visual Demographics: Imagining Human Diversity in the Sixteenth Century5. Seventeenth-Century Changes: Racial Imaginary and the Configuration of Empire6. Looking Across the Battle Lines: Visual Empathy/Visual Violence 7. Pictures from the Arctic: The Colonized Draw Back 8. Empire Redrawn: Belarusian-Ukrainian Baroque and the Displacement of Muscovite Visual Culture Conclusion: A New Scopic Regime BibliographyIndex

Valerie A. Kivelson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History and Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, USA. She is the author of Russia’s Empires (2016; with Ronald Suny), Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (2006) and Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (2013). She is also the co-editor of Russian Empire (2023; with Joan Neuberger and Sergei Kozlov) and Picturing Russia (2008; with Joan Neuberger).

This is lively and innovative contribution to historical thinking about Early Modern Russia. Rooted in original scholarship, packed with engaging material, the book takes us on a series of journeys into the diverse and powerful ways in which images work in (and on) the world.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Imagining Empire: Making Muscovy Imperial2. Explosion of Images: The Litsevoi letopisnyi svod (Illustrated Historical Chronicle)3. Picturing a Place in the World: Between Europe and the Steppe4. Visual Demographics: Imagining Human Diversity in the Sixteenth Century5. Seventeenth-Century Changes: Racial Imaginary and the Configuration of Empire6. Looking Across the Battle Lines: Visual Empathy/Visual Violence 7. Pictures from the Arctic: The Colonized Draw Back 8. Empire Redrawn: Belarusian-Ukrainian Baroque and the Displacement of Muscovite Visual Culture Conclusion: A New Scopic Regime BibliographyIndex

Valerie A. Kivelson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History and Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, USA. She is the author of Russia’s Empires (2016; with Ronald Suny), Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (2006) and Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (2013). She is also the co-editor of Russian Empire (2023; with Joan Neuberger and Sergei Kozlov) and Picturing Russia (2008; with Joan Neuberger).

This is lively and innovative contribution to historical thinking about Early Modern Russia. Rooted in original scholarship, packed with engaging material, the book takes us on a series of journeys into the diverse and powerful ways in which images work in (and on) the world.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Imagining Empire: Making Muscovy Imperial2. Explosion of Images: The Litsevoi letopisnyi svod (Illustrated Historical Chronicle)3. Picturing a Place in the World: Between Europe and the Steppe4. Visual Demographics: Imagining Human Diversity in the Sixteenth Century5. Seventeenth-Century Changes: Racial Imaginary and the Configuration of Empire6. Looking Across the Battle Lines: Visual Empathy/Visual Violence 7. Pictures from the Arctic: The Colonized Draw Back 8. Empire Redrawn: Belarusian-Ukrainian Baroque and the Displacement of Muscovite Visual Culture Conclusion: A New Scopic Regime BibliographyIndex