Acknowledgments ................................................ xi
Introduction .................................................... i
1. Nesting Narratives: The History and Historiography of
Muscovite Cartography ....................................... 13
2. Engaging with the Law: Cartography, Autocracy, and
Muscovite Legality .......................................... 29
3. Signs in Space: Landscape and Property in a Serf-Owning
Society ..................................................... 57
4. "The Souls of the Righteous in a Bright Place": Landscape
and Orthodoxy in Seventeenth-Century Russian Maps ........... 99
5. Messages in the Land: Siberian Maps and Providential
Narratives ................................................. 117
6. "Exalted and Glorified to the Ends of the Earth":
Christianity and Colonialism ............................... 149
7. "Myriad, Countless Foreigners": Siberia's Human
Geography and Muscovite Conceptions of Empire .............. 171
8. Under the Sovereigns Mighty Hand: Colonial Subjects and
Muscovite Imperial Policies ................................ 194
Conclusion .................................................... 210
Notes ......................................................... 215
Bibliography .................................................. 241
Index ......................................................... 257
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