Russia's people of empire : life stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the present / edited by Stephen M. Norris and Willard Sunderland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Russia's people of empire / Stephen M. Norris and Willard Sunderland -- Ermak Timofeevich (1530s/40s-1585) / Willard Sunderland -- Simeon Bekbulatovich (?-1616) / Donald Ostrowski -- Timofei Ankudinov (1617?-1653) / Maureen Perrie -- Gavril Romanovich Nikitin (?-1698) / Erika Monahan -- Boris Ivanovich Korybut-Kurakin (1676-1727) / Ernest A. Zitser -- Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765) / Michael D. Gordin -- Catherine the Great (1729-1796) / Hilde Hoogenboom -- Petr Ivanovich Bagration (1765-1812) / Sean Pollock -- Johannes Ambrosius Rosenstrauch (1768-1835) / Alexander M. Martin -- Imam Shamil (1797-1871) / Rebecca Gould -- Zalumma Agra, the "star of the East" (flourished 1860s) / Charles King -- Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) / Theodore R. Weeks -- Archbishop Innokentii (Borisov, 1800-1857) / Mara Kozelsky -- Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852) / Edyta Bojanowska -- Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894) / Richard Stites -- Aleksandr Borodin (1833-1887) / David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye -- Kutlu-Mukhammad Batyr-Gireevich Tevkelev (1850-?) and family / Charles Steinwedel -- Petr Badmaev (1851-1919) / David McDonald -- Ekaterina Sabashnikova-Baranovskaia (1859-?) / Barbara Alpern Engel -- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867-1951) / Bradley D. Woodworth -- Mathilde Kshesinskaia (1872-1971) / Krista Sigler -- Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) / Alexandra Harrington -- Aleksandr Germano (1893-1955) / Brigid O'Keeffe -- Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich (1893-1991) / Hiroaki Kuromiya -- Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) / John MacKay -- Mukhtar Auezov (1897-1961) / Michael Rouland -- Jahon Obidova (1900-1967) / Marianne Kamp -- Olzhas Suleimenov (1936-) / Marlene Laruelle -- Boris Akunin (Grigorii Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, 1956-) / Stephen M. Norris -- Vladislav Surkov (1964-) / Karen Dawisha.