Published and Previously Unpublished Academic Writing

The links here are to digital files of my academic writing, which is being posted in the first instance to make accessible work that either had never appeared in print, or appeared in publications that may otherwise be difficult to obtain. With few exceptions where I may link to an outside URL, the files are ones I have created for posting to my personal website. As time permits I shall add files. A complete bibliography of my academic publications may be found here.

The topical groupings below are:

• Publications about the Muscovite kuranty (translated news and pamphlets) and more generally communications and "news" in Muscovy
• Muscovite Turcica
• History of the book, libraries and manuscript collections
• Russian chronicles
• Viatka
• Reviews, review notices (pertaining to early Russia and Slavica)
• The "Great Game"; the British consulate at Kashgar; C. P. Skrine
• Central Asia past and present
• Publications on museums, their collections and special exhibitions (from The Silk Road)
• The Silk Road. Articles and reviews from the Silkroad Foundation's journal.

Publications about the Muscovite kuranty (translated news and pamphlets) and more generally communications and "news" in Muscovy

• New Introduction to the material on the kuranty (2007)
• Excerpts from 1972 Harvard Ph.D. Dissertation, "Muscovite Pamphlets with Turkish Themes"
  • Dissertation title page and Table of Contents
  • "Chapter II. The Muscovite Kuranty" (text, pp. 37-76)
  • Notes to Chapter II (pp. 334-52)
  • Appendix IIa, "Terminology in the Kuranty" (pp. 447-51)
  • Appendix IIc, "Van Sweeden's Contract" (pp. 510-12)
• "On the Origin of the 'Correspondence between the Sultan and the Cossacks" (Recenzija, I/2 [1971]: 3-46)
• "The Publication of Muscovite Kuranty" (review of Vesti-Kuranty 1600-1639 gg.) (Kritika, IX/3 (1973): 104-20)
• "Diplomatic Channels as a Source for Foreign News in Muscovy" (unpublished conference paper, 1975)
• "Azbuka znakami lits: Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Privy Chancellery Archive," Oxford Slavonic Papers, N. S., 10 (1977): 46-50
• "News of the False Messiah: Reports on Shabbetai Zevi in Ukraine and Muscovy," Jewish Social Studies 41/3-4 (1979): 301-22.
• “Tekst o nebesnom znamenii 1672 g. (k istorii evropeiskikh sviazei moskovskoi kul'tury poslednei treti XVII v.),” in Problemy izucheniia kul'turnogo naslediia (Moscow: Nauka): 201-8. (A Festschrift for Academician D. S. Likhachev.)
• "News Sensations from the Front: Reportage in Late Muscovy concerning the Ottoman Wars," in: Rude & Barbarous Kingdom Revisited:Essays in Russian History and Culture in Honor of Robert O. Crummey, ed. Chester Dunning, Russell Martin and Daniel Rowland. Bloomington, IN.: Kritika, 2008: 491-506 + 2 plates.
• (co-authored with Ingrid Maier) “How Well Was Muscovy Connected with the World?” in: Imperienvergleich: Beispiele und Anätze aus osteuropäischer Perspektive. Festschrift für Andreas Kappeler, ed. Guido Hausmann and Angela Rustemeyer (Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte, Bd. 75) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz): 17-38.
• (co-authored with Ingrid Maier) "'The Blowing of the Messiah's Trumpet': Reports about Sabbatai Sevi and Jewish Unrest in 1665-1667," in: The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern Europe, ed. Brendan Dooley. Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT.: Ashgate, 2010: 137-52
• (review notice:) “new titles: Muscovite kuranty” (Vesti-kuranty 1656 g. 1660-1662 gg. 1664-1670 gg. Ch. 1. Russkie teksty; Vesti-kuranty 1656 g. 1660-1662 gg. 1664-1670 gg. Ch. 2. Inostrannye originaly k russkim tekstam). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 4 October 2009.
• (review:) S. M. Shamin, Kuranty XVII stoletiia. Evropeiskaia pressa v Rossii i vozniknovenie russkoi periodicheskoi pechati.Posted to H-EarlySlavic 30 May 2011.
• (review:) The new volume of the kuranty. Vesti-Kuranty 1671-1672 gg. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 5 April 2018.
• "Novye svedeniia o russkikh perevodakh inostrannogo reportazha o bitve pri Zente (1697 g.)," (tr. by K. Stankov), in: Perevodchiki i perevody v Rossii kontsa XVI-nachaa XVIII stoletiia. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii Moskva, 29-30 sentiabria 2021 g. (Moskva: In-t. rossiiskoi istorii RAN): 200-210.

Muscovite Turcica

• “’Odolenie na Turskoe tsarstvo’--pamiatnik antituretskoi publitsistiki XVII v.” (“Victory over the Turkish Empire” — a Monument of Seventeenth-Century Anti-Turkish Propaganda), Trudy Otdela drevnerusskoi literatury 33 (1977): 88-107.
• Ioannikii Galiatovs'kyi's Polemics against Islam and Their Muscovite Translations," Harvard Ukrainian Studies, III/IV (1979-1980): 908-19.
• "The Great Turkes Defiance Revisited / Eshche raz o ‘Vyzove Velikogo Turka’," Slovene 8/1 (2019): 162-187.
• See also "On the Origin of the 'Correspondence between the Sultan and the Cossacks" (1971); "News Sensations from the Front: Reportage in Late Muscovy concerning the Ottoman Wars" (2008); Tekst o nebesnom znamenii 1672 g.(k istorii evropeiskikh sviazei moskovskoi kul'tury poslednei treti XVII v.)" (1985), and the articles on Shabbetai Zvi, linked above.

History of the book, libraries and manuscript collections

• "Soviet Watermark Studies--Achievements and Prospects" Kritika: A Review of Soviet Books on Russian History 6/2 (1970): 78-111
  German summary and partial translation by Theo Gerardy in IPH Information.
• The Manuscripts Collected by P. M. Stroev. Reprint of the articles in TODRL 30 (1976) and 32 (1977), prefaced by an introduction written in 2013 about the background of the work.
• “The Lessons of the Kurbskii Controversy Regarding the Study and Dating of Old Russian Manuscripts,” in Russian and Slavic History, ed. Don Karl Rowney and G. Edward Orchard (Columbus, O.: Slavica, 1977): 219-37. Prefacing this article here is a page I composed in 2011 with retrospective notes regarding other opinions and publications pertaining to the subject matter.
• (reviews:)N. N. Rozov, Kniga v Rossii v XV veke; N. N. Zarubin, Biblioteka Ivana Groznogo: Rekonstruktsiia i bibliograficheskoe opisanie; in Slavic Review 43/1 (1984): 94, 95.
• "The Library of Aleksei Mikhailovich," Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 38 (1986): 299-324.
• “The Unsolved Problem of Tsar Ivan IV's Library,” Russian History 14/1-4 (1987): 395-408.
• "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 25/1-2 (1998) [=Memorial Festschrift for A. A. Zimin]: 11-20.
• (review:)Ralph Cleminson, comp., A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections; in: Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 24/4: 457-58.
• (review:)Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR: Moscow and Leningrad. In Slavic Review 33/1 (1974): 148-49.
• (review notice:) I. M. Gritsevskaia. Chtenie i chet’i sborniki v russkikh monastyriakh XV-XVII vv. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 17 May 2013
• "How Might We Write a History of Reading in Pre-18th-Century Russia?" in: Reading Russia. A History of Reading in Modern Russia, Damiano Rebecchini and Raffaella Vassena, eds., Vol. 1 (Milano: Università degli Studi; Ledizioni): 45-75. (The volume may be obtained open access from the publisher's website.)
• See also my "A Scriptorium in Kholmogory: Some Observations on Palaeography," a previously unpublished piece included (below) in my Two Muscovite Chronicles, and "'Anatolii's Miscellany'," listed below under "Viatka". For an overview memoir of my early work on Muscovite book culture, see "The Enthusiasms of Youth..." linked to my main webpage.

Russian chronicles

• (review:)G. A. Perfecky, tr. and ed., The Galician-Volynian Chronicle: An Annotated Translation; in Slavic Review 33/4 (1974): 769-71; Reply to correspondence regarding the review, in Slavic Review 34/2 (1975): 455-56.
• "Two Muscovite Chronicles. My 1979 article from Oxford Slavonic Papers, an unpublished palaeographic study on the possible Kholmogory scriptorium, and a newly written introduction.
• (review:)Ia. S. Lur'e, Obshcherusskie letopisi XIV-XV vv.. In The Russian Review 36/3 (1977): 351-52.
• (review:)S. A. and B. J. Zenkovsky, ed. and tr., The Nikonian Chronicle from the Beginning to the Year 1132 (vol. 1), in Slavic Review 44/2 (1985): 316-7.
• “K istorii viatskogo letopisaniia,” in: In Memoriam. Sbornik pamiati Ia. S. Lur'e (St. Petersburg: Antheneum-Feniks), pp. 303-20. Published also as: “Anatolievskii sbornik i problemy viatskogo letopisaniia,” in: Shvedy i russkii sever: istoriko-kul'turnye sviazi (K 210-letiiu Aleksandra Lavrent'evicha Vitberga). Materialy Mezhdunarodnogo nauchnogo simpoziuma (Kirov): 336-54.
• Letter to Editor [concerning Ia. S. Lur'e], Slavic Review, 56/1 (1997): 186. (Note: a correction of a mistake by the editors was published in a subsequent number.)
• (review:) V[arvara] G[elievna] Vovina-Lebedeva. Shkoly issledovaniia russkikh letopisei: XIX-XX vv. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 7 March 2013.

Viatka

• "'Anatolii's Miscellany': Its Origins and Migration," Harvard Ukrainian Studies XIX (1995): 747-55.
• "K voprosu o datirovke Velikoretskogo krestnogo khoda,” in Gertsenka: Viatskie zapiski (annual of the Kirov Regional Library), Vyp. 6 (2004): 128-36.
• "Religion and Regional Identities: the Case of Viatka and the Miracle-Working Icon of St. Nicholas Velikoretskii,” in Die Geschichte Russlands im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert aus der Perspektive seiner Regionen, hrsg. von Andreas Kappeler (=Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 63) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2004): 259-78.
• "Mestnoe samosoznanie, religiia i 'izobretenie' regional'nogo proshlogo" (Local identity, religion and the "invention" of a regional past), Trudy Otdela drevnerusskoi literatury 57 (2006): 350-58.
• See also my publication of a Viatka chronicle, listed above.

Miscellaneous pre-modern Russian history and culture

• “Correspondence Concerning the ‘Correspondence’,” in Harvard Ukrainian Studies (=Kamen' Kraeug"l'n". Essays presented to Edward L. Keenan on his Sixtieth Birthday by his Colleagues and Students), 19 (1995!): 23-65.
• “Remembering Academician Dmitrii Sergeevich Likhachev,” REECAS Newsletter, Fall 1999: 9, 18.
• “We Have Never Been Modern: Approaches to the Study of Russia in the Age of Peter the Great ,” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 49 (2001): 321-45.
• “Kto na samom dele "provintsialen"? Razmyshleniia o kontseptsii provintsial'nosti na primerakh Rossii rannego Novogo vremeni, Zapadnoi Evropy i Ameriki,” in: Kniga i literatura v kul'turnom prostranstve epokh (XI-XX veka). Posviashchaetsia 45-letiiu nauchno-pedagogicheskoi deiatel'nosti Eleny Ivanovny Dergachevoi-Skop. Sost. i otv. red. O. N. Fokina, V. N. Alekseev (Novosibirsk, 2011), 51-58.
• “The End of an Era: Remembering Sigurd Ottovich Shmidt (1922-2013),”Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 14/4 (2013): 910-20.
• See also my memoir, "The Enthusiasms of Youth..." linked to my main webpage.

Reviews, review notices (pertaining to early Russia and Slavica)

• S. M. Kashtanov, Ocherki russkoi diplomatiki. In Slavic Review 32/1 (1973): 158-160.
• Ian Grey, Boris Godunov. In American Historical Review 79/5 (1974): 1596-97.
• A Source Book for Russian History from Early Times to 1917, Vol. 1, ed. Vernadsky et al. In Slavic Review 33/2 (1974): 336-337.
• Andreas Kappeler, Ivan Groznyj im Spiegel der ausländischen Druckschriften seiner Zeit. In Slavic Review 33/3 (1974): 534.
• (review notice:)Russia Medievalis, Tomus I; in Slavic Review 33/4 (1974): 772.
• Jaroslaw Pelenski, Russia and Kazan. In Speculum 52/2 (1977): 415-18.
• R. G. Skrynnikov, Ivan the Terrible, in: Slavic Review 43/3 (1984): 470-71.
• S. O. Shmidt, Rossiiskoe gosurdarstvo v seredine XVI stoletiia: tsarskii arkhiv i litsevye letopisi vremeni Ivana Groznogo, in: Slavic Review 45/2 (1986): 315-16.
• Deutsche und Deutschland aus russischer Sicht, 11.-17. Jahrhundert, ed. Dagmar Herrmann, in English Historical Review 107 (1992): 996-7.
• Simon Franklin and Jonathan Shepard, The Emergence of Rus 750-1200, in The Medieval Review (on-line, posted 2 October 1997).
• Donald Ostrowski, Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589, in: The Medieval Review (on-line, posted 15 March 1999).
• SC (review notice:) Gunilla Larsson. Ship and Society: Maritime Ideology in Late Iron Age Sweden. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 3 March 2007.
• (review notice:) Nikolai Findeizen, History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 5 February 2008.
• SC (review notice:) Yury Bobrov; ed. by Christ Entwhistle, A catalogue of the Russian icons in the British Museum. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 13 September 2008.
• (review notice:) A. A. Frolov, N. V. Piotukh. Istoricheskii atlas Derevskoi piatiny Novgorodskoi zemli. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 23 May 2009.
• (review notice:) “popular culture in the Russian North” (A. B. Moroz. Sviatye Russkogo Severa; P. S. Efimenko. Obychai i verovaniia krest'ian Arkhangel'skoi gubernii; T. A. Bernshtam. Narodnaia kul'tura Pomor'ia). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 23 May 2009.
• (review notice:) “new titles” (T. V. Anisimova. Khronika Georgiia Amartola v drevnerusskikh spiskakh XIV-XVII vv.; E. K. Romodanovskaia. Rimskie Deianiia na Rusi). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 10 December 2009.
• (review notice:) “city censuses” (Perepisnaia kniga goroda Tveri 1709 goda). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 28 January 2010.
• (review notice:) “digital atlas” (Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 12 June 2010.
• (review notice:) K. Iu. Erusalimskii. Sbornik Kurbskogo. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 15 June 2010.
• SC (review notice:) “some new books” (L. V. Stoliarova, S. M. Kashtanov. Kniga v Drevnei Rusi [XI-XVI vv.]; O. S. Sapozhnikova. Russkii knizhnik XVII veka Sergei Shelonin. Redaktorskaia deiatel'nost'; Patrik Gordon. Dnevnik 1684-1689; S. A. Kirillina. 'Ocharovannye stranniki'. Arabo-Osmanskii mir glazami rossiiskikh palomnikov XVI-XVIII stoletii; Drevneishie gosudarstva Vostochnoi Evropy. 2009 god. Transkontinental'nye i lokal'nye puti kak sotsiokul'turnyi fenomen). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 8 July 2010.
• (review notice:) “new titles” (Drevniaia Rus' v svete zarubezhnykh istochnikov. Khrestomatiia. II. Vizantiiskie istochniki; Drevniaia Rus' v svete zarubezhnykh istochnikov. Khrestomatiia. IV. Zapadnoevropeiskie istochniki; B. N. Floria, Russkoe gosudarstvo i ego zapadnye sosedi (1655-1661 gg.); A. N. Vlasov, Zhitiinye povesti i skazaniia o sviatykh iurodivykh Prokopii i Ioanne Ustiuzhskikh; N. V. Savel'eva, Skazaniia XVII veka o sviatyniakh, sviatykh i podvizhnikakh Russkogo Severa: Pinega i Mezen'; A. L. Batalov, L. A. Beliaev, Sakral'noe prostranstvo srednevekovoi Moskvy.) Posted to H-EarlySlavic 6 February 2011
• (review notice:) “some resources” (1. Sotheby's Russian art sale; 2. S. A. Kirillina's "Ocharovannye stranniki"; 3. The website "Vostochnaia literatura: Srednevekovye istoricheskie istochniki"). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 19 May 2011.
• (review notice:) “Chechulin; Chentsova” (N. D. Chechulin. Russkaia provintsiia vo vtoroi polovine XVIII veka; V. G. Chentsova, Ikona Iverskoi Bogomateri [Ocherki istorii otnoshenii grecheskoi tserkvi s Rossiei v seredine XVII v. po dokumentam RGADA]). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 26 May 2011.
• (review notice:) “new publications in archaeology” (G. E. Dubrovin. Nikitinskii raskop v Novgorode; Rus’ i Vostok v IX-XVI vekakh. Novye arkheologicheskie issledovaniia; V. Iu. Koval’. Keramika Vostoka na Rusi IX-XVII veka). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 21 August 2011.
• (review notice:) E. V. Platonov. Chasovni Tikhvinskogo uezda (rubezh XIX-XX vv.). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 9 September 2011.
• (review notice:) “new books” (Slaviano-russkii Prolog po drevneishim spiskam. Sinaksar’ [zhitiinaia chast’ Prologa kratkoi redaktsii] za sentiabr’-fevral’. T. I. Tekst i kommentarii; E. S. Smirnova. Iskusstvo knigi v srednevekovoi Rusi. Litsevye rukopisi Velikogo Novgoroda. XV vek). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 27 September 2011.
• (review notice:) “novinki” (Evrei i khristiane v pravoslavnykh obshchestvakh Vostochnoi Evropy; V. A. Matveenko and L. I. Shchëgoleva. Knigi vremennye i obraznye Georgiia Monakha; T. V. Sazonova. Kirillo-Novoezerskii monastyr’. Opyt izucheniia malykh i srednikh monastyrei Rossii XVI-XVII vv.; T. B. Karabasova. Kirill Novoezerskii. Istoriia pochitaniia. Issledovanie i teksty). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 17 October 2011.
• (review notice:) “Music from St. Catherine’s and the Furnace Play.” Posted to H-EarlySlavic 30 November 2011.
• (review notice:) Vizantiiskii slovar’. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 3 December 2011.
• (review notice:) “Rybalko on bureaucracy during Smuta” (N. V. Rybalko. Rossiiskaia prikaznaia biurokratiia v Smutnoe vremia nachala XVII v.) Posted to H-EarlySlavic 3 December 2011.
• (review notice:) “Electronic Novgorodica” (website of the Novgorodskaia oblastnaia universal'naia nauchnaia biblioteka). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 23 December 2011.
• (review notice:) “some new books” (A. A. Turilov. Ot Kirilla Filosofa do Konstantina Kostenetskogo i Vasiliia Sofiianina; I. K. Fomenko. Obraz mira na starinnykh portolanakh. Prichenomor’e konets XIII-XVII v.; I.A. Ustinova. Knigi patriarshikh prikazov 1620-1649 gg. kak istoricheskii istochnik; N. F. Demidova. Sluzhilaia biurokratiia v Rossii XVII veka (1625-1700). Biograficheskii spravochnik; Russkaia agiografiia. Issledovaniia. Materialy. Publikatsii. T. II; Steppenkrieger. Reiternomaden des 7.-14. Jahrhunderts aus der Mongolei, ed. Jan Bemmann). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 24 February 2012.
• (review notice:) “new books installment 2” (A. N. Vlasov. Skazaniia i povesti o mestnochtimykh sviatykh i chudotvornykh ikonakh Vychegodsko-Severodvinskogo kraia XVI-XVIII vekov; D. M. Volodikhin. Sotsial’nyi sostav russkogo voevodskogo korpusa pri Ivane IV; A. Shaginian. Armeniia i strany iuzhnogo Kavkaza v usloviiakh viszantiisko-iranskoi i arabskoi vlasti; Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries 1635-1699. Vol. II: 1659-1667; V. Matveenko, L. Shcegoleva, Knigi vremennye i obraznye Georgiia Monakha. T. 2, ch. 2. Dopolnenie. Istochniki khroniki Georgiia Monakha; Mitropolit Evgenii (Bolkhovitinov). Istoriia kniazhestva Pskovskogo; V. D. Smirnov. Krymskoe khanstvo XIII-XV vv.). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 26 February 2012.
• (review notice:) Ia. S. Lur'e, Izbrannye stat'i i pis'ma. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 18 May 2012.
• (review notice:) Paleobureaucratica. Sbornik statei k 90-letiiu N. F. Demidovoi. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 19 May 2012.
• (review notice:) O. V. Sevast'ianova. Drevnii Novgorod. Novgorodsko-kniazheskie otnosheniia v XII-pervoi polovine XV v. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 20 May 2012.
• (review notice:) E. A. Mel'nikova, Drevniaia Rus' i Skandinaviia: Izbrannye trudy. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 18 May 2012.
• (review notice:) Religioznoe obrazovanie v Rossii i Evrope v XVII veke. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 25 May 2012.
• (review notice:) Kniga i literatura v kul'turnom prostranstve epokh (XI-XX veka). Posviashchaetsia 45-letiiu nauchno-pedagogicheskoi deiatel'nosti Eleny Ivanovny Dergachevoi-Skop. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 28 May 2012.
• (review notice:) Indoevropeiskoe iazykoznanie i klassicheskaia filologiia - XVI. Materialy chtenii, posviashchennykh pamiati professora Iosifa Moiseevicha Tronskogo. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 13 June 2012.
• (review notice:) Christine Watson. Tradition and Translation. Maciej Stryjkowski's Polish Chronicle in Seventeenth-Century Russian Manuscripts. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 16 June 2012.
• (review notice:) “new titles” (Puteshestvie antiokhiiskogo patriarkha Makariia v Rossiiu v polovine XVII veka; Pistsovaia i perepisnaia knigi XVII veka po Nizhnemu Novgorodu; G. I. Vzdornov. Iskusstvo i nauka. Ocherki po istorii drevnerusskoi khudozhestvennoi kul’tury; Dnevnik Iana Petra Sapegi (1608-1611); A. I. Razdorskii. Konskaia torgovlia Moskvy v XVII veke (po materialam tamozhennykh knig 1629 i 1630 gg.); I. V. Dergacheva. Drevnerusskii Sinodik. Issledovaniia i teksty; V. V. Mil’kov, R. A. Simonov. Kirik Novgorodets: uchenyi i myslitel’; S. M. Mikheev. Kto pisal “Povest’ vremennykh let”?; I. K. Labutina. Istoricheskaia topografiia Pskova v XIV-XV vekakh; Kavkazskii vektor rossiiskoi politiki. Sbornik dokumentov. Tom 1. XVI-XVIII vv.; V. P. Darkevich. Tsivilizatsiia Drevnei Rusi XI-XVII vekov). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 21 June 2012.
• (review notice:) Slovar' knizhnikov i knizhnosti drevnei Rusi, Vyp. 2 (vtoraia polovina XIV-XVI v.), chast' 3. Bibliograficheskie dopolneniia. Prilozhenie. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 22 June 2012.
• (review notice:) “new titles” (Slukhi v Rossii XIX-XX vekov. Neofitsial’naia kommunikatsiia i ‘krutye povoroty’ rossiiskoi istorii. Sbornik statei; Fal’sifikatsiia istoricheskikh istochnikov i konstruirovanie etnokraticheskikh mifov). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 4 August 2012.
• (review notice:) “Novgorodica” (Prikhodnaia kniga novgorodskogo Doma Sviatoi Sofii 1576/77 g.; L. A. Sekretar’. Monastyri Velikogo Novgoroda i okrestnosti). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 30 August 2012.
• (review notice:) “new books” (S. M. Kashtanov. Issledovanie o moldavskoi gramote XV veka; A. V. Beliakov. Chingisidy v Rossii XV-XVII vekov: prosopograficheskoe issledovanie; T. V. Gimon. Istoriopisanie rannesrednevekovoi Anglii i Drevnei Rusi. Sravnitel’noe issledovanie). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 13 September 2012.
• (review notice:) “several recent Russian publications” (Pokhodnaia kantseliariia vitse-kantslera Petra Pavlovicha Shafirova; B. L. Fonkich. O sovremennykh metodakh issledovaniia grecheskikh i russkikh dokumentov XVII veka. Kriticheskie zametki; Ocherki feodal’noi Rossii. Vyp. 15; Letopisi i khroniki. Novye issledovaniia. 2011-2012; E. N. Shveikovskaia. Russkii krest’ianin v dome i mire: severnaia derevnia kontsa XVI-nachala XVIII veka; V. V. Penskoi. Ivan Groznyi i Devlet-Girei; Pravoslavie Ukrainy i Moskovskoi Rusi v XV-XVII vekakh. Obshchee i razlichnoe). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 17 November 2012.
• (review notice:) “recent Russian publications” (I.V. Magilina. Rossiia i proekt antiosmanskoi ligi v kontse XVI-nachale XVII vv.; M. Kiseleva. Intellektual’nyi vybor Rossii vtoroi poloviny XVII-nachala XVIII veka: ot dreverusskoi knizhnosti k evropeiskoi uchenosti; L.B. Sukina. Chelovek veruiushchii v russkoi kul’ture XVI-XVII vekov). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 16 December 2012.
• (review notice:) “recent Russian publications” (Spory o novgorodskom veche: mezhdistsiplinarnyi dialog: Materialy “kruglogo stola”; A. S. Almazov. Politicheskii portret ukrainskogo getmana Ivana Samoilovicha). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 24 December 2012.
• (review notice:) “two new books” (M. V. Nikolaeva. Slovar' ikonopistsev i zhivopistsev Oruzheinoi palaty 1630-1690-e gody; A. A. Panchenko. Ivan i Iakov--neobychnye sviatye iz bolotistoi mestnosti. "Krest'ianskaia agiologiia" i religioznye praktiki v Rossii Novogo vremeni). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 30 December 2012.
• (review notice:) Ikonopistsy i zhivopistsy Oruzheinoi palaty 1630-1690-e gody: dvorovladeniia, sobytiia povsednevnoi zhizni, rabota po chastnym zakazam. Sbornik dokumentov. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 24 February 2013.
• (review:) Ukaznye gramoty gorodovym voevodam i prikaznym liudiam 1613-1626 gg. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 15 May 2013.
• (review notice:) N. B. Golikova. Privilegirovannoe kupechestvo v strukture russkogo obshchestva v XVI-pervoi chetverti XVIII v. Iz nauchnogo naslediia. Posted to H-EarlySlavic 17 May 2013.
• (review) “New Book: Dhakson ed. of Saga Texts; other Islandica.” Posted to H-EarlySlavic 5 June 2013.
• (review) “The New Volume of Drevneishie gosudarstva Vost. Evropy.” Posted to H-EarlySlavic 6 July 2013.
• (review notice:) “New Book: Vasil’ev on Early Novgorod Toponyms.” Posted to H-EarlySlavic 13 July 2013 .
• (review notice:) “New Book: Old Russian Translation of Durandus.” Posted to H-EarlySlavic 18 July 2013.
• (review notice:) “New Book: Trepavlov on Sibirskii iurt.” Posted to H-EarlySlavic 20 July 2013.
• (review) “New Text Edition: Latukhinskaia stepennaia kniga.” Posted to H-EarlySlavic 28 July 2013.
• (review) “New Book: Mazur on Pereslavl-Zalesskii.” Posted to H-EarlySlavic 29 July 2013.
• (review) “New Book: Bogdanov, Stikh torzhestva.” Posted to H-EarlySlavic 2 August 2013.
• (review notice) “Two Recent Books: Malorossiiskii prikaz and Lakhtin” (Malorossiiskii prikaz. Opisi fonda; M[ikhail] Iu[r’evich] Lakhtin. Starinnye pamiatniki meditsinskoi pis’mennosti). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 3 August 2013.
• (review notice) “The New Edition of the Earliest Prolog.” Posted to H-EarlySlavic 3 August 2013.
• (review notice) “New Books on Muscovite Heresies: Alekseev and Grigorenko” Posted to H-EarlySlavic 3 August 2013.
• (review notice) “Two New Books: Eil’bart and Cherkasova.” Posted to H-EarlySlavic 1 November 2013 .
• (review) “New Book: Okladnikov on Mezen’ Villages.” Posted to H-EarlySlavic 14 November 2013.
• (review) “A New Zimin Commemorative Volume.” Posted to H-EarlySlavic 16 November 2013
• (review notice) “BAN Honors its Long-time Staff: Two New Publications” (Elena Alekseevna Savel'eva; Irina Nikolaevna Lebedeva). Posted to H-EarlySlavic 16 November 2013.
• (review) “Two New Volumes of Novgorod Documents.” Posted to H-EarlySlavic 17 November 2013.
• (review) “New Reprint of Dosifei on Solovki.” Posted to H-EarlySlavic 26 November 2013.
• (review) “Two new source publications” (Rossiia i Prussia v seredine XVII veka. Tom 1. Posol’skaia kniga po sviaziam Rossii s Brandenburgsko-Prusskim gosudarstvom 1649-1671 gg.; Prikhodo-raskhodnye knigi Solovetskogo monastyria 1571-1600 gg.), posted in H-EarlySlavic 6 March 2014.
• (review) “New book: Kochegarov on Muscovy and Samoilovych’s family in the 1680s” (K. A. Kochegarov, Russkoe pravitel’stvo i sem’ia ukrainskogo getmana Ivana Samoilovicha v 1681-1687 gg.), posted in H-EarlySlavic 8 March 2014.
• (review) “Tikhonov on the Moscow historical school in first half of 20th century (V. V. Tikhjonov. Moskovskaia istoricheskaia shkola v pervoi polovine XX veka. Nauchnoe tvorchestvo Iu.V. Got’e, S. B. Veselovskogo, A. I. Iakovleva i S. V. Bakhrushina), posted in H-EarlySlavic 12 March 2014.
• (review notice) “Gladkova on Vita of Evstafii Plakida” (O. V. Gladkova, Zhitie Evstafiia Plakidy v russkoi i slavianskoi knizhnosti i literature IX-XX vekov), posted in H-Early Slavic, 26 March 2014.
• (review) “Three new publications in the academic ‘discipline’ of petrovedenie” (Puteshestvie po Evrope boiarina B. P. Sheremeteva 1697-1699; D. Iu. Guzevich. Zakhoroneniia Leforta i Gordona; Petrovskoe vremia v litsakh—2013 (Trudy Gos. Ermitazha, LXX), posted in H-EarlySlavic 5 April 2014.
• (review) “A new volume of customs registers from the Russian North” (Tamozhennye knigi Sukhono-Dvinskogo puti XVII v. [Sost. S. N. Kisterev, L. A. Timoshkina]. Vyp. 1), posted in H-EarlySlavic 8 April 2014.
• (review) “New book: B. N. Floria on foreign policy of Ordin-Nashchokin (B. N. Floria, Vneshnepoliticheskaia programma A. L. Ordina-Nashchokina i popytki ee osushchestvleniia), posted in H-EarlySlavic 15 April 2014.
• (review) “Architecture: Two new publications” (Dvorets Tsaria Alekseia Mikhailovicha XVII veka. Istoriko-khudozhestvennaia rekonstruktsiia; M. I. Mil’chik. Gorod Kholmogor byl mnogoliuden i znamenit… Ocherk gradostroitel’noi i arkhitekturnoi istorii. Graficheskie rekonstruktsii i dokumenty), posted in H-EarlySlavic 5 May 2014.
• (review notice) “New book on iurodivye” (Iurodivye v russkoi kul’ture. Otv. red. i sost. E. M. Iukhimenko), posted in H-EarlySlavic 13 May 2014.
• (review notice) “New text edition: the Sofiiskii sbornik” (Antologiia pamiatnikov literatury domongol’skogo perioda v rukopisi XV v. Sofiiskii sbornik. Izd. Podgotovili G. S. Barankova, N. V. Savel’eva, O. S. Sapozhnikova. Pod red. N. V. Savel’evoi), posted in H-EarlySlavic 15 May 2014.
• (review notice) “Several new publications” (Il’menskoe Poozer’e i smezhnye territorii v kontse XV-XVII vv. Publikatsiiu podgotovil I. Iu. Ankudinov; Iu. S. Vasil’ev. Izbrannye trudy po istorii Evropeiskogo Severa Rossii XII-XVIII vekov; Pistsovye knigi iugo-zapadnogo porubezh’ia. [Sost. M. Iu. Zencheko i dr.]; S. V. Saitanov. Staraia Ladoga: arkheologiia i istoriia: istoriografiia arkheologicheskikh issledovanii i nekotorye voprosy istorii ee vozniknoveniia, razvitiia i znacheniia v period obrazovaniia drevnerusskogo gosudarstva), posted in H-EarlySlavic 15 May 2014.
• (review) “The new Katalog pamiatnikov drevnerusskoi pis’mennosti) (Katalog pamiatnikov drevnerusskoi pis’mennosti XI-XIV vv. (rukopisnye knigi). Otv. red. D. M. Bulanin. [Sost. D. M. Bulanin, A. A. Romanova, O. V. Tvorogov, F. Tomson, A. A. Turilov.]), posted in H-EarlySlavic 21 May 2014.
• (review) “Fedorova’s edition of Mikolaj Radziwill’s Peregrijnacya in its Muscovite translation” (I. V. Fedorova. “Puteshestvie v Sviatuiu Zemliu i Egipet” kniazia Nikolaia Radzivilla i vostochnoslavianskaia palominicheskaia literatura XVII-nachala XVIII v. Issledovanie i tekst), posted in H-EarlySlavic 21 May 2014.
• (review) “Postnikov’s Pskov Museum document catalogue” (A. B. Postnikov. Drevlekhranilishche Poskovskogo muzeia. Obozrenie russkikh rukopisnykh dokumentov XVI-XVIII vv.), posted in H-EarlySlavic 23 May 2014.
• (review) “Kashtanov’s new study of princely proto-chanceries” (S. M. Kashtanov, Issledovaniia po istorii kniazheskikh kantseliarii srednevekovoi Rusi), posted in H-Early Slavic, 29 May 2014.
• (review) “The 2011 volume of Drevneishie gosudarstva” (Drevneishie gosudarstva Vostochnoi Evropy. 2011 god. Ustnaia traditisiia v pis’mennom tekste), posted in H-EarlySlavic 30 May 2014.
• (review) “The new volume of Knizhnye tsentry Drevnei Rusi” (Knizhnye tsentry Drevnei Rusi: Knizhniki i rukopisi Kirillo-Belozerskogo monastyria[SPb., 2014]), posted in H-EarlySlavic 27 June 2014.
• (review) “New book: Filiushkin on the invention of the Livonian War” (A. I. Filiushkin. Izobretaia pervuiu voinu Rossi ii Evropy. Baltiiskie voiny vtoroi poloviny XVI v. glazami sovremennikov i potomkov), posted in H-EarlySlavic 30 June 2014.
• (review notice) “The new volume of Ierotopiia” (Ierotopiia Ognia i Sveta v kul’ture vizantiiskogo mira / Hierotopy of Light and Fire in the Culture of the Byzantine World. Ed. Alexei Lidov), posted in H-EarlySlavic 9 July 2014.
• (review) “New books on ‘modernization’ and ‘europeanization’” (Istoriia Rossii: teoreticheskie problemy. Vyp. 2. Modernizatsionnyi podkhod v izuchenii rossiiskoi istorii. Otv. red. A. S. Seniavskii; T. V. Chernikova. Evropeizatsiia Rossii vo vtoroi polovine XV-XVII vekakh: monografiia), posted in H-EarlySlavic 9 July 2014.
• (review) “The new volume of Fedosov’s translation of Patrick Gordon” (Patrik Gordon. Dnevnik 1690-1695. Perevod s angliiskogo, stat’ia i primechaniia D. G. Fedosova), posted in H-EarlySlavic 14 July 2014.
• (review notice) “New book: Bessonov on Narodnaia eskhatologiia,” posted in H-EarlySlavic 25 July 2014.
• (review notice) “Some recent reprints and a new translation of a classic” (V. N. Berkh. Tsarstvovanie Tsaria Alekseia Mikhailovicha; I. I, Golikov. Deianiia Petra Velikogo, mudrogo preobrazitelia Rossii; V. L. Ianin. Ocherki istorii srednevekovogo Novgoroda; Fridrikh-Khristian Veber. Preobrazhennaia Rossiia. Novye zapiski o nyneshnem sostoianii Moskovii. Perevod i kommentarii D. V. Solov’eva), posted in H-EarlySlavic 24 September 2014.
• (review notice) “The two most recent volumes of Ocherki feodal’noi Rossii” [Vyp. 16, 17], posted in H-EarlySlavic 24 September 2014.
• (review) “Karnaukhov on Renaissance Polish authors about Muscovy” (D. V.] Karnaukhov. “Russkie” i “moskovskie” izvestiia v trudakh pol’skikh istorikov votoroi poloviny XV-nachala XVII vv. (istoriograficheskii aspect)), posted in H-EarlySlavic 24 September 2014.
• (review) “Demin on Selenginsk—three new publications (E. V. Demin. Selenginskaia doroga—pervyi karavan. (Pervye plavaniia po Selenge i Khilku i predistoriia Kiakhtinskogo torgovogo puti); Selenginskie kazaki—tolmachi i diplomaty (vtoraia polovina XVII-pervye desiatiletiia XVIII vv.); “Zaveshchanie” 1684 g. selenginskogo kazaka Vavily Grigor’eva. (Irkutskie obstoiatel’stva i motivy)), posted in H-EarlySlavic 1 October 2014.
• (review) “The new volume of Germenevtika drevnerusskoi literatury” [Sb. 16-17], posted in H-EarlySlavic 8 October 2014.
• (review) “New Book: Sinelobov on local elected officials in Muscovy” (A. P. Sinelobov. Personal’nyi sostav gorodovykh prikazchikov i gubnykh starost Moskovskogo gosudarstva XVI-XVII vv. Monografiia), posted in H-EarlySlavic 20 October 2014.
• (review) “New book: Shibaev on manuscripts of the Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery” (M. A. Shibaev. Rukopisi Kirillo-Belozerskogo monastyria XV veka. Istoriko-kodikologicheskoe issledovanie), posted in H-EarlySlavic 20 October 2014.
• (review) “New book: Petrovskaia on Muscovite instrumental music” (I. F. Petrovskaia. Drugoi vzgliad na russkuiu kul’turu XVII veka. Ob instrumental’noi muzyke i o skomorokhakh. Istoricheskii ocherk), posted in H-EarlySlavic 31 October 2014.

The "Great Game"; the British consulate at Kashgar; C. P. Skrine

• “The ‘Mysterious and Terrible Karatash Gorges’: Notes and Documents on the Explorations by Stein and Skrine,” The Geographical Journal 165/3 (1999): 306-20.
• “The Physical and Human Geography of Inner Asia in the Early 1920s Through the Eyes and Lens of C. P. Skrine,” in: Cultural Interaction and Conflict in Central and Inner Asia. Papers presented at the Central and Inner Asia Seminar University of Toronto, 3-4 May 2002 and 23-24 May 2003 (=Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia, No. 6) (Toronto: Asian Institute, University of Toronto): 87-100.
• See also "The Old Curiosity Shop in Khotan" (2010), listed below under The Silk Road.

Central Asia past and present

• “Exploring the ‘Kongur Alps’; Unknown Side of Mustagh Ata,” The Himalayan Journal (Bombay) 54: 25-32, plus 4 photographs.
• “Central Asia After Eight Years of Independence,” REECAS Newsletter, Fall 1999: 1, 4-6. Reprinted in my Tamerlane's Heirs.
• “The Pax Mongolica,” (2000) on-line at the Silkroad Foundation website.
• (review:)Thomas T. Allsen, Commodity and exchange in the Mongol empire: A cultural history of Islamic textiles, in: Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (Amman, Jordan) 2/1 (2000): 196-98.
• “A Sven Hedin Chronology” and “A Sven Hedin Bibliography,” (2001) on-line at the Silkroad Foundation website.
• “The Challenge of Introducing Central Asia to Young Readers” (review of: Cherese Cartlidge, Charles Clark, The Central Asian States), in Central Eurasian Studies Review 1/3 (2002): 30-31.
• "The Need for a New Perspective on Central Asia,” REECAS Newsletter, Autumn/Winter 2001: 3-4. Reprinted in my Tamerlane's Heirs.
• "The Authoritarian Politics of Central Asia," in: The Democratic Process: Promises and Challenges. A resource guide produced for the Democracy Education Exchange Project (DEEP) (American Forum for Global Education, 2003): 37-53. Reprinted in my Tamerlane's Heirs.
• (review:) Scott Levi, The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and its Trade, 1550-1900; in: Slavic Review, 63/1 (2004): 180.
• (review:)Frances Wood, The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia; in: Canadian-American Slavic Studies 39/2-3 (2005): 359-61.
• “The Golden Horde and Russia,” in: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire, ed. William Fitzhugh, Morris Rossabi and William Honeychurch, [Media, Pa.:] Dino Don: Mongolian Preservation Foundation; Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution; [Seattle]: University of Washington Press, 2009: 172-179.
• “Virtual and Visual Realities: Cosmic Space in the Mogao Caves.” A seminar paper written in 1998 for the Silkroad Foundation/Dunhuang Institute program at the Dunhuang Mogao Caves.
• "Recovering Mongolia's Past" REECAS Newsletter, Spring-Summer 2010.
• "Trade and Cultural Interaction through Central Asia, ca. 500-ca.1500 .” Written in ca. 2003 for The World and its Peoples, a planned 50-vol. general encyclopedia by Brown Reference Group, London, which has ceased to exist (bankruptcy). The typescript of the article is here.
• “The Silk Roads in History.” Expedition [journal of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology] 52/3 (2010): 9-22.
• “Central Eurasians Everywhere” (review article on Christopher Beckwith, Empires of the Silk Road), Mongolian Studies XXXI (2009 [2010]): 289-306
• “Travel and Travelers in Medieval Eurasia,” World History Connected 10/1 (2013) [on-line journal].
• (review:) The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China, ed. James C. S. Lin; in The Silk Road 10 (2012): 192-4.
• “Farewell to the Marauding Nomad,” The Silk Road 10 (2012): 158-63. (Review of Nomads and Networks, eds. Sören Stark et al.; Steppenkrieger. Reiternomaden des 7.-14. Jahrhunderts aus der Mongolei, ed. J. Bemmann.)
• (review article on:) Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City Life, ed. David Durand Guédy. Leiden; Boston, 2013; in Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 20 (2014): 252-64.

Publications on museums, their collections and special exhibitions (from The Silk Road).

• “Beyond the Sensational: The Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums’ ‘Origins of the Silk Road’,” The Silk Road 5/2 (2008): 1-6.
• "Museums, Entrepreneurship, and the Politics of Cultural Identity", The Silk Road 6/1 (2008): 2-8.
• "Images from Ancient Iran: Selected Treasures from the National Museum in Tehran. A photographic essay," The Silk Road 8 (2010): 4-15
• "The Chaoyang Northern Pagoda: A photo essay," The Silk Road 9 (2011): 53-70.
• "The Spillings Hoard in the Gotlands Museum," The Silk Road 9 (2011): 165-69. (Review of The Spillings Hoard – Gotland’s Role in the Viking Age, and accompanying museum exhibition.)
• “Arts of the Islamic World in the Louvre: Experiencing the New Galleries,” The Silk Road 10 (2012): 99-106.(Review of Les Arts de l’Islam au Musée du Louvre, ed. S. Makariou, and the museum’s exhibition.)
• “Distance Learning and the Museum: The Arts of the Islamic World at The Metropolitan Museum in New York,” The Silk Road 11 (2013): 172-80.
• “Review of: Kochevniki Evrazii na puti k imperii. Iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Katalog vystavki (St. Petersburg, 2012), in The Silk Road 12 (2014): 171-72.
• “The Arts of China in Seattle,” The Silk Road 12 (2014): 137-52 + color plates X-XIII.
• “The David Collection,” The Silk Road 12 (2014): 132-36 + color plate IX.

The Silk Road

• "From the Editor," The Silk Road 1/2 (2003): 1-2
• "From the Editor," The Silk Road 2/1 (2004): 1-2
• "From the Editor," The Silk Road 2/2 (2004): 1-2
• "From the Editor," The Silk Road 3/1 (2005): 1-2
• "From the Editor," The Silk Road 3/2 (2006): 1-2
• "From the Editor," The Silk Road 4/1 (2006): 1-3
• "Boris Il'ich Marshak. July 9, 1933-July 28, 2006," The Silk Road 4/1 (2006): 4
• "The Challenges of Preserving Evidence of Chinese Lacquerware in Xiongnu Graves," The Silk Road 4/1 (2006): 32-36
• "From the Editor," The Silk Road 4/2 (2007): 1-4.
• "Richthofen's 'Silk Roads': Toward the Archaeology of a Concept," The Silk Road 5/1 (2007): 1-10
  A somewhat revised version of the article, linked here, with updated references and as yet unpublished, supersedes the version published in 2007; a Chinese translation of it has appeared.
• "Marking the Centenary of Dunhuang" [Conference Report], The Silk Road 5/1 (2007): 68-72.
• "Paths Less Trodden", The Silk Road 7 (2009): 2-7
• (reviews and review notices:) "The University of Bonn’s Contributions to Asian Archaeology"; J. E. Hill, Through the Jade Gate to Rome; E. R. Knauer, Coats, Queens, and Cormorants; Y. Kadoi, Islamic Chinoiserie; S. Whitfield, ed., La Route de la Soie; J. Elverskog, Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road; “Khotan is Hot” (Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology 8; Bulletin of the Asia Institute 19), in: The Silk Road 8 (2010): 125-36.
• (co-authored with Ursula Sims-Williams), "The Old Curiosity Shop in Khotan," The Silk Road 8 (2010): 69-96. Chinese translation.
• "Nomads and Settlement: New Perspectives in the Archaeology of Mongolia," The Silk Road 8 (2010): 97-124.
• "...Full of Sound and Fury...", The Silk Road 9 (2011): 156-59.(Review of V. S. Flerov, "Goroda" i "zamki" Khazarskogo kaganata. Arkheologicheskaia real'nost'.)
• (review:)I. F. Nedashkovskii, Zolotoordynskie goroda nizhnego Povolzh'ia i ikh okruga; in The Silk Road 9 (2011): 159-61.
• "The Gray Eminence of Kashgar Speaks," The Silk Road 9 (2011): 162-64. (Review of: N. F. Petrovskii, Turkestanskie pis'ma.)
• [reviews and review notices of: L. R. Kontsevich, Khronologiia stran Vostochnoi i Tsentral’noi Azii; S. E. Sidebotham, Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route; Analayo, The Genesis of the Bodhisattva Ideal; Iu. I. Elikhina, Kul’ty osnovnykh bodkhisattv i ikh zemnykh vopoloshenii; C. Baumer, China’s Holy Mountain; The National Museum of China; M. Comparetti, Samarcanda Centro del Mondo; Rus’ i Vostok v IX-XVI vekakh; V. I. Koval’, Keramika Vostoka na Rusi; F. B. Flood, Objects of Translation; Abu’l Fazl Behaqi, History; Xiongnu Archaeology; Mongolian-German Karakorum Expedition, I; Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology, 4; Literature and History of the Western Regions, 5; Youn-mi Kim, “Eternal Ritual in an Infinite Cosmos: The Chaoyang North Pagoda”; Lu Jing, “Liao Ceramics”; C. Kost, “Auf der Suche nach Identität. Bildpraxis im nordchinesischen Steppenraum”], The Silk Road 9 (2011): 170-87.
• (conference report) “International Conference: Archaeology of the Southern Taklamakan: Hedin and Stein’s Legacy and New Explorations, 8th-10th November 2012” [Organised by the International Dunhuang Project (IDP) at the British Library, the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and the Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology], published on the IDP website.
• [reviews and review notices of: L. R. Kontsevich, Khronologiia stran Vostochnoi i Tsentral’noi Azii. Addenda; A.V. Simonenko, Rimskii import u sarmatov Severnogo Prichernomor’ia; E. B. Barinova, Vliianie kul’tury Kitaia na protsessy inku’turatsii Srednei Azii; J. Neelis, Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks; E. B. Smagina, Manikeistvo po rannim istochnikam; Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam, ed. Venetia Porter; D. Gibson, Qur’anic Geography; R. W. Bulliet, Cotton, Climate and Camels in Early Islamic Iran; al-Ia’kubi, Kniga stran (Kitab al-buldan), ed. and tr. L. A. Semenova; V. D. Goriacheva, Gorodskaia kul’tura tiurkskikh kaganatov na Tian’Shane; E. D. Zilivinskaia, Ocherki kul’tovogo i grazhdanskogo zodchestva Zolotoi Ordy; I. K. Fomenko. Obraz mira na starinnykh portolanakh. Prichernomor’e kontsa XIII-XVII vv.; Shakh-Makhmud ibn Mirza Fazil Churas. Khronika, ed. and tr. O. F. Akimushkin; Art, Architecture and Religion Along the Silk Roads, ed. K. Parry; The ‘Silk Roads’ in Time and Space: Migrations, Motifs, and Materials [=SPP no. 228], ed. V. Mair; Bulletin of the Asia Institute, Vol. 21; Literature and History of the Western Regions, Vol. 6], in The Silk Road 10 (2012): 198-207.
• (review:) Rashmita Jadav, Understanding the Morphology of Leh Town; in The Silk Road 10 (2012): 196-7.
• (review:)Jonathan Karam Skaff, Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors; in The Silk Road 10 (2012): 195-6.
• (review:) Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds, ed. R. Krahl et al.; in The Silk Road 10 (2012): 194-5.
• (review:) Tjalling H. F. Halbertsma, Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia; in The Silk Road 10 (2012): 191-2.
• “Epilogue to the Silk Roads?,” The Silk Road 10 (2012): 167-70. (Review of S. F. Dale, The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals; G. Casale, The Ottoman Age of Exploration.)
• “‘...destroyed, [The Silk Road] is no more’,” The Silk Road 10 (2012): 164-7. (Review of V. Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History.)
• “Farewell to the Marauding Nomad,” The Silk Road 10 (2012): 158-63. (Review of Nomads and Networks, eds. Sören Stark et al.; Steppenkrieger. Reiternomaden des 7.-14. Jahrhunderts aus der Mongolei, ed. J. Bemmann.)
• “Archaeology and Landscape in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia: Celebrating Two Decades of Achievement,” The Silk Road 10 (2012): 154-7. (Review of E. Jacobson-Tepfer et al., Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: An Atlas, and the associated websites.)
• “XiongNews: Fourscore Years since the First Excavations at Noyon uul,” The Silk Road 10 (2012): 151-4. (Review of N. V. Polos’mak et al., Dvadtsatyi Noin-ulinskii kurgan, and Khunnugiin öv. Nuudelchdiin ankhny tör.)
• “Revisiting Borderlands of Empires in Western Asia: Reviews and a Photo Essay,” The Silk Road 10 (2012): 171-86. (On Dura Europos, Zeugma and Qusayr Amra.)
• “A Road Less Taken?” [rev. of Edvard Rtveladze, Velikii Indiiskii Put’], The Silk Road 11 (2013): 188-91
• “Expanded Geographic Horizons along the Maritime Silk Road” [review essay on Hyunhee Park, Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds], The Silk Road 11 (2013): 200-14.
• “A Treasury of Old Images for the Study of Inner Asia” [rev. of V. A. Prishchepova, Illustrativnye kollektsii po narodam Tsentral’noi Azii....v sobraniiakh Kunstkamery], The Silk Road 11 (2013): 217-20.
• (reviews and review notices for following:) Jongeward, et al., Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries; Chinese Silks, ed. Dieter Kuhn et al.; Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 23/2 (2013): Textiles as Money on the Silk Road; A. A. Ierusalimskaia, Moshchevaia Balka; V.S. Taskin, tr., Materialy po istorii kochevykh narodov v Kitae III-IV vv., vyp. 4 Di i Tsiany; [Xuanzang], Zapiski o Zapadnykh stranakh, tr. N. V. Aleksandrova; Sara Searight, Lapis Lazuli; Ancient Iran from the Air, ed. David Stronach and Ali Mousavi, photographs by Georg Gerster; Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India; K. Sh. Tabaldyev, Drevnie pamiatniki Tian’Shania; A. Iu. Alekseev, Zoloto skifskikh tsarei; K. Z. Uskenbai, Vostochnyi Dasht-i Kypchak v XIII-nachale XV veka; E. A. Smagulov, Drevnii Sauran; Religiia v istorii narodov Iuzhnoi Sibiri i Tsentral’noi Azii, Ch. 2; Sebouth David Aslanian, From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean. The Global Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa. In: The Silk Road 11 (2013): 222-33.
• “Book notices/summaries: Two Arabic Travel Books: Abu Zayd al-Sirafi. Accounts of China and India. Ed. and tr. by Tim Mackintosh-Smith; Ahmad ibn Fadlan. Mission to the Volga. Ed. and tr. by James E. Montgomery; Uighurskie delovye dokumenty X–XIV vv. iz Vostochnogo Turkestana, ed. and tr. I. Iu. Tugusheva; “Novye zakony” Tangutskogo gosudarstva (pervaia chetvert’ XIII v.), ed. and tr. E. I. Kychanov; Dokumenty i materialy po istorii bashkirskogo naroda (s drevneishikh vremen do serediny XVI v.), comp. F. G. Khisametdinova et al.; A. M. Leskov et al., Meoty Zakuban’ia IV–III vv. do n. e. Nekropoli u aula Uliap. Sviatilishcha i ritual’nye kompleksy; Materialy Tokharistanskoi ekspeditsii, Vyp. 9. Poselenie Dabil’kurgan v Severnoi Baktrii; K. M. Baipakov, Drevniaia i srednevekovaia urbanizatsiia Kazakhstana (po materialam issledovanii Iuzhno-Kazakhstanskoi kompleksnoi arkheologicheskoi ekspeditsii). Kn. 1. Urbanizatsiia Kazakhstana v epokhu bronzy-rannem srednevekov’e. Kn. 2. Urbanizatsiia Kazakhstana v IX–nachale XIII v.; K. A. Akishev, Drevnie i srednevekovye gosudarstva na territorii Kazakhstana (Etiudy issledovaniia); Catrin Kost, The Practice of Imagery in the Northern Chinese Steppe (5th – 1st Centuries BCE); A. G. Grushevoi, Ocherki ekonomicheskoi istorii Sirii in Palestiny v drevnosti (I v. do n.e.—VI v. n.e.); Articulating Indic Ideas in Sixth and Seventh Century Chinese Buddhism, ed. Chen-kuo Lin and Michael Radich; Timothy Brook, Mr. Selden’s Map of China. Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographeri>; Cities of the Dead. The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan. Photographs by Margaret Morton. Text by Nasser Rabbat, Elmira Köchümkulova, and Altyn Kapalova; Ming: 50 Years that changed China. Ed. Craig Clunas; Jessica Harrison-Hall; Adam T. Kessler, Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road; Publications of the M. A. Usmanov Center for Studies of the History of the Golden Horde: I. M. Mirgaleev. Zolotaia Orda: bibliograficheskii ukazatel’, and Zolotoordynskaia tsivilizatsiia. Nauchnyi Ezhegodnik; Gorod i step’ v kontaktnoi Evro-Aziatskoi zone. Materialy III mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii, posviatshchennoi 75-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia professora G. A. Fëdorova-Davydova (1931–2000); Ermitazhnye chteniia pamiati V. G. Lukonina (21.01.1932–10.09.1984). K 80-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia. 2007–2012; Bulletin of the Asia Institute, N. S., Vol. 23 (2009) [2013]; Literature and History of the Western Regions, Vol. 8 (2014); Xiyu yanjiu. The Western Regions Studies. A Quarterly; in The Silk Road 12 (2014): 182-92.
• “Review of: Elmira Janabergenova, Kazakhstan. Songs from the Aral Sea; Bidas Rustembekov. Kazakh Terme. Sung Poetry of Wisdom; Faik Chelebi, Tar. The Classical Mugam of Azerbaijan in Solo Instrumental Performance; The Epic Körughly. The Kazakh version. Performed by Bidas Rustembekov; An Anthology of Kazakh Epic Songs and Dombra Kyuis (recording) and A Journey to Epic Qyzylorda: Three Kazakh Jyraus(video), in The Silk Road 12 (2014): 180-81.
• “Review of: O. V. D’iakova, Gosudarstvo Bokhai: arkheologiia, istoriia, politika (M., 2014), in The Silk Road 12 (2014): 178-79.
• “Review of: Scripta Antiqua. Voprosy drevnei istorii, filologii, iskusstva i material’noi kul’tury. Almanakh, Vols. I-III (M., 2011-2014), in The Silk Road 12 (2014): 175-78.
• “Review of: Sogdiitsy, ikh predshestvenniki, sovremenniki i nasledniki. Na osnove materialov konferentsii “Sogdiitsy doma i na chuzhbine”, posviashchennoi pamiati Borisa Il’icha Marshaka (1933–2006) (St. Petersburg, 2013), in The Silk Road 12 (2014): 172-75.
• “Review of: Court and Craft: A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq, ed. Rachel Ward (London, 2014), in The Silk Road 12 (2014): 169-71.
• “Review of: James Millward, The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford etc., 2013), in The Silk Road 12 (2014): 167-68.
• “Review of: Reconfiguring the Silk Road, ed. Victor Mair; Jane Hickman (Philadelphia, 2014), in The Silk Road 12 (2014): 164-67.
• (review article) “ Re-Imagining and Re-Imaging Eurasian Exchange” (on Toby Wilkinson, Tying the Threads of Eurasia [Leiden, 2014]), in The Silk Road 12 (2014): 153-63 + Color Plates XIV-XVI.

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