From the Editors

Kritika Comes of Age! Twenty-One Years and Counting . . . 693

Forum: War and Diplomacy in the Black Sea Region

Kahraman Şakul
From Mare Clausum to Mare Liberum: Black Sea Diplomacy in the Era of Russo-Ottoman Duopoly . . . 701

Onur Işçi
Yardstick of Friendship: Soviet-Turkish Relations and the Montreux Convention of 1936 . . . 733

Forum: Myths of Empire and Faith

Louise Mcreynolds
Excavating Byzantium: Russia’s Archaeologists and Translatio Imperii . . . 763

Elena Astafieva
The Russian Jesuit Myth . . . 791

Review Forum: The Black Sea as a Microcosm of Empire

Sara Dickinson
The Enchantment of an Earlier Black Sea, 1768–1856 . . . 827

Michel Abesser
A Window to the South: The Russian Empire, the Black Sea, and Beyond . . . 843

Review Essays

Alexander M. Martin
The Alienated Russian Nobility? . . . 861

Katherine Pickering Antonova
Discovering Russian Regions: Fruits of the Archival Turn in Imperial Russian History . . . 877

Reviews

Heather L. Bailey and Charles J. Halperin
Weaving a History of Russian Orthodoxy . . . 893

Olga Velikanova
“Laughter Is a Serious Matter” . . . 904

Kristin Roth-Ey
Conjuring the Bad Object in New Writing on Socialist Television . . . 915

Contributors to This Issue . . . 928