Introduction : erudition and wisdom, insight and delight / Nancy Shields Kollmann -- Princes, politics, and chronicles in fifteenth-century Russia / Cherie Woodward -- Making the invisible visible : pre-petrine sources and the hunt for the elusive non-elite / Jennifer B. Spock -- The perils of profit : patrons and protection in Muscovite trade / Maria Salomon Arel -- Nicolae Milescu Spafarii's khrismologion and kniga o sivillakh : prophecies of power in late seventeenth-century Russia / Michael Pesenson -- The saint of Russian reformation : Tikhon of Zadonsk and the protestant influences in the eighteenth century -- Russian Orthodox Church / Andrey Ivanov -- Crying their hearts out : an incident of public penance in Catherine the Great's Russia / Nikolaos Chrissidis -- The reformation in Finland : a historiography of continuities / Jason Lavery -- Know thine enemy : the travails of Russian missionary orientology / David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye -- Resistance a