Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue: Land, People, and the Honeybee in Prehistory Part I: Premodern Bee-Centered Landscapes Chapter 1: Political Economies of Wax and Honey in the Rise of Rus and Muscovy from the 8th to the 15th Centuries Chapter 2: The Honeybee and Religiosity: The Hum of Human-Bee Interaction in Prehistory, Kievan Rus, and Muscovy Part II: Transitions: Early Modern Muscovy and Imperial Russia Chapter 3: Beekeeping and Early Modern Empire, 1550-1800 Chapter 4: An Imperial Russian Bee Culture, 1550-1820 Part III: Modern Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and Post-Soviet Russia Chapter 5: Beekeeping and Bee Culture in the Late Empire to the Great War Chapter 6: The Sovietization of Beekeeping: "The Most Powerful in the World" Chapter 7: Aftermath: Bee Culture in Contemporary Public History Conclusion Bibliography About the Author.