“…The methodological challenge to extend this approach to Muscovy in its contemporary European context should be met, now that larger spatial contexts of Muscovite history, notably the "Eurasian" one, are already being discussed. 13 The historiography on early modern Europe is a jungle, however, and it is legitimate for the historian of Muscovy to think twice before entering it. At least until the first half of the 20th century, national historical schools in Europe projected the contradictions of their own time back onto earlier periods.…”