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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Russian Federation (Country) 
    • Ukraine (Country) 
    • Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (Country) 

  • Research

    • Russian Federation (Country) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Zitser, Ernest A. The Transfigured Kingdom Sacred Parody and Charismatic Authority at the Court of Peter the Great. Cornell University Press, 2004.

  • Academic Articles

    • Giullian, J. C., and E. A. Zitser. “Beyond LibGuides: The Past, Present, and Future of Online Research Guides.” Slavic and East European Information Resources 16, no. 4 (January 1, 2015): 170–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2015.1094718.
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    • Zitser, E. A. “Recalling Russia's Eighteenth Century: Imaginative Literature as Mnemonic Praxis.” Russian History 42, no. 4 (January 1, 2015): 453–60. https://doi.org/10.1163/18763316-04204005.
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    • Zitser, E. A. “From lubok to libel: Nineteenth-century Russian historiography and popular memory in the Jester wedding of Prince-Pope Nikita Zotov.” Russian Literature 75, no. 1–4 (January 1, 2014): 591–606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ruslit.2014.05.026.
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    • Fedyukin, I., and E. A. Zitser. “For love and fatherland: Political clientage and the origins of Russia's first female order of chivalry.” Cahiers Du Monde Russe 52, no. 1 (December 1, 2011): 5–44.
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    • Zitser, E. A. “A full-frontal history of the romanov dynasty: Pictorial "political pornography" in pre-reform russia.” Russian Review 70, no. 4 (October 1, 2011): 557–83. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9434.2011.00629.x.
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    • Zitser, E. A. “The Vita of Prince Boris Ivanovich "Korybu"-Kurakin: Personal life-writing and aristocratic self-fashioning at the court of Peter the Great.” Jahrbucher Fur Geschichte Osteuropas 59, no. 2 (2011): 163–94.
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    • Brewer, M. M., and E. A. Zitser. “Slavic information literacy: Past, present, and future.” Slavic and East European Information Resources 10, no. 2–3 (November 24, 2009): 117–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/15228880903222825.
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    • Zitser, E. A. “"A dirty place for Americans to be": Images of the Russian civil war in Siberia from the Robert L. Eichelberger collection at Duke University Libraries.” Slavic and East European Information Resources 10, no. 1 (November 16, 2009): 29–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/15228880802714765.
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    • Zitser, Erik. “Imperial saint: The cult of St Catherine and the dawn of female rule in Russia.” Social History 33, no. 2 (May 2008): 212–14.
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    • Zitser, E. A. “Picturing the Soviet Union's "greatest generation": The Soviet information Bureau Photograph Collection of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.” Slavic and East European Information Resources 8, no. 1 (September 13, 2007): 3–10. https://doi.org/10.1300/J167v08n01_02.
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    • Zitser, E. A. “The post-cold war metamorphosis of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies library.” Slavic and East European Information Resources 7, no. 4 (December 1, 2006): 17–21. https://doi.org/10.1300/J167v07n04_03.
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    • Zitser, E. A. “Politics in the state of sober drunkenness: Parody and piety at the court of Peter the great.” Jahrbucher Fur Geschichte Osteuropas 51, no. 1 (2003): 1–14.
    • Zitser, E. “Peter the Great and the West: New perspectives.” Russian Review 61, no. 2 (April 2002): 308–9.
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  • Book Sections

    • Zitser, E. A. “Boris Ivanovich Korybut-Kurakin (1676-1727).” In Russia’s People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present, 59–68, 2012.
    • Zitser, E. A. “The Russian round table: Aleksei Zubov's depiction of the marriage of his royal highness, peter the first, autocrat of all the Russias.” In Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture, 57–62, 2008.
    • Zitser, E. A. “Apostles and apostates: The court of peter the great as a chivalrous religious order.” In Culture and Authority in the Baroque, 159–92, 2005.

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