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Oxford Slavonic Papers is an annual series devoted to the publication of original contributions and documents relating to the languages, literature, culture, and history of Russia and other Slavonic countries. Volume 21 includes essays covering such topics as accentuation in the slavoniclanguages of masculine nouns; Anglo-Russian relations in the Muscovite north; the history of the Russian Glove Puppet Theatre; the sources of Michael Groening's Rossijskaja grammatika; official propoganda in mid-nineteenth-century Russia; the letters of A.V. Shiryaevets; an essay on Tsarevna SophiaAlekseevn entitled Ambitious and Daring Above her Sex, and one on Alexis Aladin, the Trudovik leader in the first Russian duma.