Marina Swoboda, co-editor of Old Testament Apocrypha in the Slavonic Tradition, is the author of numerous articles in the field of early Russian literature and cultural history.William Benton Whisenhunt, professor of history, College of DuPage, is the author of In Search of Legality: Mikhail M. Speranskii and the Codification of Russian Law and co-editor of Russian and Soviet History: From the Time of the Troubles to the Collapse of the Soviet Union.