Russia's People of Empire: Life Stories From Eurasia, 1500 to the Present

Acknowledgments
 Chronology
 Maps Introduction by Stephen M. Norris and Willard Sunderland
 1. Ermak, 1530s/40s-1585 / Willard Sunderland
 2. Simeon Bekbulatovich, ?-1616 / Donald Ostrowski
 3. Timofei Ankudinov, 1609-1653 / Maureen Perrie
 4. Gavril Romanov Nikitin, -1698\" / Erika Monahan
 5. Boris Kurakin, 1676-1727 / Ernest Zitser
 6. Mikhail Lomonosov, 1711-1765 / Michael Gordin
 7. Catherine the Great, 1729-1796 / Hilde Hoogenboom
 8. Petr Bagration 1765-1812 / Sean Pollock
 9. Johannes Ambrosius Rosenstrauch, 1768-1835 / Alexander Martin
 10. Imam Shamil, 1797-1871 / Rebecca Gould
 11. Zalumma Agra, 1864 / Charles King
 12. Adam Mickiewicz, 1798-1855 / Ted Weeks
 13. Archbishop Innokentii, 1800-1857 / Mara Kozelsky
 14. Nikolai Gogol, 1809-1852 / Edyta Bojanowska
 15. Anton Rubenstein, 1829-1894 / Richard Stites
 16. Aleksandr Borodin, 1833-1887 / Dave Schimmelpenninck
 17. Kutlu-Muhammed Tevkelev and Family (1850-?) / Charles Steinwedel
 18. P.A. Badmaev, 1851-1919 / David McDonald
 19. Ekaterina Sabashnikova-Baranovskaia, 1859-? / Barbara Alpern Engel
 20. Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim, 1867-1951 / Bradley Woodworth
 21. Matilde Kshesinskaia, 1872-1971 / Krista Sigler
 22. Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953 / Ron Suny
 23. Anna Akhmatova, 1889-1966 / Alexandra Harrington
 24. Aleksandr Germano, 1893-1955 / Brigid O\'Keeffe
 25. Lazar Kaganovich, 1893-1991 / Hiroaki Kuromiya
 26. Dziga Vertov, 1896-1954 / John MacKay
 27. Mukhtar Auezov, 1897-1961 / Michael Rouland
 28. Jahon Obidova, 1900-1967 / Marianne Kamp
 29. Olzhas Suleimenov, 1936- / Marlene Laruelle
 30. Boris Akunin (Grigorii Chkhartishvili), 1956 / Stephen Norris
 31. Vladislav Surkov, 1964- / Karen Dawisha Notes
 List of Contributors
 Index