A Note: In Memory of Richard Hellie

Abstract

I begin with special thanks to Rastyam Aliev and his colleagues for their invitation to submit my work for publication in Russian translation in this splendid journal. This is doubly poignant, because the article was originally published, in 2008, in a festschrift for Richard Hellie, one of the top scholars worldwide of the social, economic, and legal history of Russia in the Muscovite period. The venue of publication were that year's fascicles of the journal Russian History...