Foreigners in Muscovy

Simon Dreher studied history in Marburg (Lahn) and completed his Master's thesis in 2017 on European views on Russian Orthodoxy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Muenster. His dissertation project focuses on everyday interactions between Western immigrants and natives in seventeenth-century Muscovy. He has been a university assistant at the Department for East European History in Vienna from 2018 to 2022 and is now employed at the Institute for Comparative Urban History (IStG) in Muenster. Recent and forthcoming publications include: "'Gegen die vermalediden ketzer und aff gesneden Ruyssen und ungelovigen Tarteren'. Bedrohungskommunikation im Rahmen der Livlaendischen Ablasskampagnen (1503-1510)", Zeitschrift fuer Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 70 (2021), No 1, 1-30; "Abgehaengt? Die Auslaendergemeinden in der Hafenstadt Archangel'sk unter dem Eindruck der Handelsrestriktionen von 1721-1762", in: Russlaendische Staedte im 18. Jahrhundert: Imperiale Konzeptionen und lokale Dynamiken (Moderne Stadtgeschichte 2022, No 2), ed. by Boris Belge and Ulrich Hofmeister (forthcoming); "Servants in foreigners' houses in mid-seventeenth century Muscovy: Local diff erences in legislation and practice", in: Aspects of Law and Religion in Russia in the Early Modern Age, 1550s -1721 (Law and Religion in the Early Modern Period/Recht und Religion in der Fruehen Neuzeit), ed. by Endre Sashalmi (forthcoming in 2023)."

Wolfgang Mueller is Full Professor of Russian History at the University of Vienna and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He was the founding deputy director of the Institute of Modern and Contemporary Historical Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; a visiting professor at the Universities of Rostock/Germany, Torun/Poland, Nice/France, and Bern/Switzerland; and a visiting fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences and Stanford University. He was awarded the R. Plaschka Prize, the L. Kunschak Prize, and the Austrian State Prize of History. His fields of research are international history, Russian and Soviet foreign policy, and political thought. One of his current research projects focuses on Russian perceptions of Europeans. His publications include:"Russland und die Habsburgermonarchie 1853-1914: Von Krisen zum Untergang," in: OEsterreich - Russland: Stationen gemeinsamer Geschichte, ed. by Stefan Karner and Alexander Tschubarjan, Graz 2018, 63-89 (with Olga Pavlenko); "Internationale Geschichte: Eine junge Disziplin mit langer Tradition," in: In Europa zu Hause. Festschrift fuer Michael Gehler zum 60. Geburtstag, Hildesheim 2002, 151-161.