Summerfolk

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This book would probably not have been written without the award of a Junior Research Fellowship by St. John’s College, Oxford. I thank that enlightened and generous institution for support both financial and intellectual.

Institutional assistance of a different kind has been provided by Cornell University Press, where Bernhard Kendler has been a courteous and efficient editor, and Karen Laun and Barbara Salazar have done excellent work on the manuscript.

My research has been made possible by the staff of several libraries and archives. In Oxford, I thank especially Mrs. Menzies at the Bodleian and the delightful and expert personnel at the Slavonic annex of the Taylor Institute. In Helsinki, Irina Lukka has been unfailingly helpful with illustrations and bibliographical queries. Librarians and archivists in Moscow and St. Petersburg, although not invariably charming, have been much more obliging than their abysmal salaries and working conditions give me any right to expect.

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