Simon Dreher studied history in Marburg (Lahn) and completed his Master's thesis in 2017 on European views on Russian Orthodoxy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Münster. His dissertation project focuses on everyday interactions between Western immigrants and natives in seventeenth-century Muscovy. He has been a university assistant at the Department for East European History in Vienna from 2018 to 2022 and is now employed at the Institute for Comparative Urban History (IStG) in Münster. Recent and forthcoming publications include: "'Gegen die vermalediden ketzer und aff gesneden Ruyssen und ungelovigen Tarteren'. Bedrohungskommunikation im Rahmen der Livländischen Ablasskampagnen (1503-1510)", Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 70 (2021), No 1, 1-30; "Abgehängt? Die Ausländergemeinden in der Hafenstadt Archangel'sk unter dem Eindruck der Handelsrestriktionen von 1721-1762", in: Russländische Städte im 18. Jahrhundert: Imperiale Konzeptionen und lokale Dynamiken (Moderne Stadtgeschichte 2022, No 2), ed. by Boris Belge and Ulrich Hofmeister (forthcoming); "Servants in foreigners' houses in mid-seventeenth century Muscovy: Local diff erences in legislation and practice", in: Aspects of Law and Religion in Russia in the Early Modern Age, 1550s -1721 (Law and Religion in the Early Modern Period/Recht und Religion in der Frühen Neuzeit), ed. by Endre Sashalmi (forthcoming in 2023)."

Wolfgang Mueller is Full Professor of Russian History at the University of Vienna and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He was the founding deputy director of the Institute of Modern and Contemporary Historical Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; a visiting professor at the Universities of Rostock/Germany, Torun/Poland, Nice/France, and Bern/Switzerland; and a visiting fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences and Stanford University. He was awarded the R. Plaschka Prize, the L. Kunschak Prize, and the Austrian State Prize of History. His fields of research are international history, Russian and Soviet foreign policy, and political thought. One of his current research projects focuses on Russian perceptions of Europeans. His publications include:"Russland und die Habsburgermonarchie 1853-1914: Von Krisen zum Untergang," in: Österreich - Russland: Stationen gemeinsamer Geschichte, ed. by Stefan Karner and Alexander Tschubarjan, Graz 2018, 63-89 (with Olga Pavlenko); "Internationale Geschichte: Eine junge Disziplin mit langer Tradition," in: In Europa zu Hause. Festschrift für Michael Gehler zum 60. Geburtstag, Hildesheim 2002, 151-161.

European Immigration to Muscovy in the Early Modern Era: An Introduction / From Individual Destinies to an Emergent Community: Latins in Sixteenth-Century Moscow / Back in Moscow: Repatriation of Muscovite Emigrants in the Political and Legal Culture of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Russia / Foreigners on Moscow's Housing Market: Legislation, Practices, and Administrative Handling of Foreign Residence Ownership in the Decades before Its Prohibition in 1652 / Muscovite Ideology and the "Other" in the Town: Articles of the 1649 Law Code and the Impact of Local Initiative / Foreign Mercenaries and the Russian Population, 1631-1634: Conflict and Coexistence / The Jesuit Mission and the Local Catholic Community in Smolensk: The First Years after the Treaty of Eternal Peace 1686 / Perlustration: The Opening of Foreigners' Mail in Muscovy / Foreign Engineers, the Conquest of Azov, and the Building of Taganrog / A Foreigner in Early Sixteenth-Century Muscovy: Duke Michael Glinski at the Muscovite Court / Playing Chess with Boris Godunov and Living in a Guesthouse: Attitudes to Armenian Merchants in Early Modern Muscovy / Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Family Networks in Dutch Trade with Russia, 1590-1750 / Halfway between the Kremlin and the Sloboda: The Catholic Physician Carbonarius and the Social Networks of Foreign Specialists in Muscovy / Appendix