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This book present the papers, commentaries, and discussions from the 12th International Colloquium in Russian History, held in June 2023 with the participation of scholars from Britain, Canada, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, and the United States. The conference considered the spatial contexts of political processes in Russia from he mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, including the physical, functional, and symbolic aspects of space, and the complexities of political space in Russian history. The papers are divided into five sections, reflecting the thematic organization of the conference: the Boundaries of Society; Territory; Empire; Crossing Boundaries; and the Boundaries of Legality.