Gyula Szvak selects essays from the proceedings of the international seminars that took place between 1998 and 2008 under the auspices of the Russian Studies Center, Eötvös Lornd University, Budapest.

Papers from biennial conferences conducted by the Center for Russian Studies of ELTE (Eötvös Lornd University), Budapest, from 1998 to 2006.

Ural school of historians /V.V. Alexseev -- Place of Russia in Eurasia : Russia on the Eurasian frontier and early modern empire / Paul Dukes -- Image of Moscovite Rus in the disputes between the Samobytniki and westernizers in the nineteenth century (Karamsin, Chaadaev, and the slavophiles) / Szergej Filippov -- On the question of the early laws of Kievan Rus and Hungary / Marta Font -- Ivan Nikolaevich Suvorov and the Vologda archiepiscopal archive / Daniel E. Kaiser -- Eighteenth century Russian history : present state, problems and perspectives / A.B. Kamenskii -- Visions of horses : the evolution of the Russian cult of Florus and Laurus / Ann M. Kleimola -- Holocaust and some new preconceptions in East European historiography / Tamas Krausz -- Divine patronage and dynasty : notes on a 1568 Gospel cover / Gail Lenhoff -- Political rumor in Early Modern Russia / Philip Longworth -- Tatar pomeshchiki in Muscovy (1560s-70s) / Janet Martin -- Contributions to regional studies and local studies in Russia, 1991-2005 / M.P. Mokhnacheva -- Sixteenth and seventeenth century Boiar aristocracy : features of political development before Peter I / A.P. Pavlov -- Place of Russia in Eurasia : some brief historical and historiographical remarks / Nicholas V. Riasanovsky -- Historical factors in Russia's development / A.N. Sakharov -- Boiar Duma under the early Romanovs : old problems and new approaches / Endre Sashalmi -- State ownership of land and its impact on the formation of the noble estate / R.G. Skrynnikov -- Monastic culture as a means of social disciplining in Muscovite Russia : a common European feature / Ludwig Steindorff -- S.B. Bakhrushin and the issue of sixteenth and seventeenth century Siberian history / Sandor Szili -- Russia's place within Eurasia in medieval and early modern times / Gyula Szvak -- Clans of Tatar descent in the Muscovite elite of the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries / Istvn Vásáry.