Published and Previously Unpublished Academic Writing

The links here are to pdf 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. As time permits I shall add files.

Publications about the Muscovite kuranty (translated news and pamphlets)

• 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. 334-352)
  • Appendix IIa, "Terminology in the Kuranty" (pp. 447-451)
  • Appendix IIc, "Van Sweeden's Contract" (pp. 510-512)
• "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): 104-120)
• "Diplomatic Channels as a Source for Foreign News in Muscovy" (unpublished conference paper, 1975)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): 301-322

History of the Book and Libraries

• "The Library of Aleksei Mikhailovich," Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 38 (1986): 299-324.
• "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.

Viatka

• "Mestnoe samosoznanie, religiia i 'izobretenie' regional'nogo proshlogo" (Local identity, religion and the "invention" of a regional past), Trudy Otdela drevnerusskoi literatury 57 (2006): 350-358.

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
• "Marking the Centenary of Dunhuang" [Conference Report], The Silk Road 5/1 (2007): 68-72