Valerie A. KivelsonValerie 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: Th 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). Read More Read Less