I: Members of Ruling Families
1: Anna Koltovskaia
2: Memoir of a Tatar Prince
3: Gleb Vasilievich
II: Government Servitors
4: A Dialogue Between Two Seventeentn- Century Boyars
5: The Power of Knowledge
6: Larka the Clerk
III: Military Personnel
7: "My Brilliant Career"
8: The Life of a Foreign Mercenary Officer
9: Vasilii Zotov
IV: Church Prelates
10: A Seventeenth-Century Prelate
11: Vasilii Kalika, Archbishop of Novgorod (r. 1330-52)
V: Monks
12: Holy Images for the Grand Prince
13: Three Scholars at the Kirillo-Belozersk Monastery
14: Greeks in Seventeenth-Century Russia
15: Akakii Balandin of Novgorod-Volotovo and Solovki Monasteries (1526-95)
VI: Provincial Landowners, Artisans, and Townspeople
16: Provincial Landowners as Litigants
17: Artisans
18: A Poor Townswoman Accused of Witchcraft
VII: Siberian Explorer and Trader
19: S.U. Remezov, Cossack Adventurer, and the Opening of Siberia
20: A Siberian Trader
VIII: Peasants, Slaves, Serfs, and Holy Fools
21: The Parfiev Family
22: Muscovite Lives
23: Dunia, a Fool for Christ