Lecture by Nancy Shields Kollman (Stanford University) "Capital Punishment in Early Modern Russia: Ritual, Ideology and Violence (1649-1725)"

Professor Kollman is a famous specialistin the history of the Russian Middle Ages and the beginning of the New Age, and is the author of the books "Kinship and Politics: The Making of the Russian Political System, 1345 - 1547" (Stanford UP, 1987) and "By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia" (Cornell UP, 1999), translated in Russian as «Soedinennye chest'ju: Gosudarstvo i obschestvo v Rossii rannego novogo vremeni» (Moscow, 2001).