N. G. Velizhanina is an art historian at the Academy of Sciences in
Novosibirsk, and a scholarly consultant to the Novosibirsk Picture Gallery
(Kartinaia Galereia). She has written several works on the sources and de-
velopment of icons in Siberia.

Natal'ia L'evovna Pushkareva is a candidate of historical sciences and a
researcher in the Russian section of the Academy of Sciences Institute of
Ethnology and Anthropology in Moscow. She is author of several important
works, including Zhenshchiny drevnei Rusi ( Moscow, 1989).

Tat'iana A. Listova is a candidate of historical sciences and a researcher
in the Russian section of the Academy of Sciences Institute of Ethnology
and Anthropology in Moscow. She is author of a growing number of pub-
lished works, and coeditor (with M. M. Gromyko) of a volume featured
here, Russkie: semeinyi i obshchestvennyi byt ( Moscow, 1989).

Iulia Kuz'mina is a reporter for the journal Nauka i religiia.

Nina Adamovna Minenko is a doctor of historical sciences and senior re-
searcher at the Institute of History, Philology, and Philosophy of the
Siberian Section, Academy of Sciences, in Novosibirsk. She is editor of
several collections and author of many monographs on Siberian social his-
tory, including Russkaia krest'ianskaia sem'ia v zapadnoi Sibiri (XVIII- per-
voi poloviny XIV v.) ( Novosibirsk, 1979).

Marina Mikhailovna Gromyko is a doctor of historical sciences, senior re-
searcher, and head of the Russian section of the Academy of Sciences In-
stitute of Ethnology and Anthropology in Moscow. She is author of many
books and articles on Russian traditional culture, including Traditsionnye
normy povedeniia i formy obshchenia russkikh krest'ian XIXv ( Moscow,
1986).

Irina V. Vlasova is a doctor of historical sciences and a senior researcher
in the Russian section of the Academy of Sciences Institute of Ethnology
and Anthropology in Moscow. She is author of numerous articles and
books, including Traditsii krest'ianskogo zemlepol'zovaniia v Pomor'e i
Zapadnoi Sibiri v XVII-XVIII vv. ( Moscow, 1984).

Ben Eklof is professor of history at Indiana University, with specialization
in Russian social history. He received the Ph.D. from Princeton University;
he has had postdoctoral grants from the Princeton Davis Fund, the Interna-
tional Research and Exchanges Board, and numerous other sources. He is
author of many articles and the well-received book Russian Peasant Schools:
Officialdom, Village Culture, and Popular Pedagogy, 1861-1914 ( Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1986). He is also coeditor (with Stephen P. Frank
) of The World of the Russian Peasant: Post-Emancipation Culture and
Society ( Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990). His sharing of a working bibliog-
raphy on Russian peasant culture is greatly appreciated.

Leslie English is assistant editor in the Russian and East European
studies program at M. E. Sharpe, Inc.

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