Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia (Video)
On Saturday, June 13, Dr. Nancy Kollmann presented “Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia” as a part of the Russian History Museum’s Second Saturday online lecture series.
Watch Nancy Kollmann’s talk exploring how 17th-century Russia’s surprisingly sophisticated judicial system worked in practice, and why, in Dr. Kollmann’s view, Russia was not a despotism.
About the Speaker
Now the William H. Bonsall Professor in History, Dr. Nancy Kollmann have been teaching at Stanford since 1982. She is a specialist in early modern Russian politics. Her books include a study of the boyar elite at Ivan the Terrible’s court, two studies of the criminal law in practice, a survey history of the Russian empire 1450-1800, and a recent monograph on visual images of Russia and Russians in 16th-century European print culture.
