Elise Kimerling WirtschafterElise Kimerling Wirtschafter is Emeritus Professor of History at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona and author of From Serf to Russian Soldier (1990); Structures of Society: Imperial Russia's "People of Various Ranks" (1994; Russian trnslation, 2002); Social Identity in Imperial Russia (1997); The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theater (2003); Russia's Age of Serfdom, 1649-1861 (2008); Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia: The Teachings of Metropolitan Platon (2013); and From Victory to Peace: Russian Diplomacy After Napoleon (2021). Professor Wirtschafter has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright-Hays Scholar, IREX exchange participant, DAAD scholar, and visiting professor at institutions of higher learning in Moscow, Paris, and Tübingen. Read More Read Less