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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).
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