Matthew P. RomanielloMatthew P. Romaniello is Assistant Professor of History at Weber State University, USA. He is the author is the author of Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia (2019) and The Elusive Empire: Kazan andthe Creation of Russia, 1552-1671 (2012). He is also the editor of The Journal of World History and five edited volumes, including two with Tricia Starks. He is currently writing Humoring Russia: Body Politics in the Eighteenth Century. Read More Read Less