David GoldfrankDavid Goldfrank is Professor of History and Director of Medieval Studies at Georgetown University. Primarily a specialist in pre-modern Russian history, his books include The Monastic Rule of Iosif Volotsky (Kalamazoo, 1983; rev. ed., 2000); The Origns of the Crimean War (London, 1993); A History of Russia: People, Legends, Events, Forces (with Catherine Evtuhov, Lindsey Hughes, Richard Stites, Boston/New York 2003); and Nil Sorsky - The Authentic Writings (Kalamazoo, 2008). He is currently working on a monograph on Iosif and a critical translation of his Prosvetitel′, as well as preparing for publication the late Andrei Pliguzov's collection of 268 documents, The Archive of the Metropolitans of Kiev and all Rus′. Read More Read Less