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This annual series publishes original scholarly contributions and documents relating to the languages, literature, culture, and history of Russia and other Slavonic countries. Volume 20 includes scholarship examining Christianity in Lithuania, 1281 to 1341; Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard; religious reform and the Russian Orthodox Church after 1905; diplomatic documents regarding F.I. Tyutchev; Jan Kochanowski's Elegiae, Lyricorum Libellus, and Piesni; a Russian translation on William of Orange and the "Glorious Revolution"; and theses in Slavonic studies approved for higher degrees by British universities, 1982 to 1986.