Tatiana Oparina is associate professor in history at Novosibirsk Pedagogical University where she has been on the faculty for the last fifteen years. Oparina will spend four months at Harvard (February-June 2007) to work on "Russian-Ukrainian Ecclesiastical Contacts and the Problem of the 'True Faith' from the end of the Time of Troubles (1613) to the Treaty of Pereiaslav (1654)." The project will investigate the views of the Moscow Patriarchate on Kyiv-style piety, Kyivan theology, the problem of "heresy" in Ukrainian texts, and divergences in canon law practices in a period when Muscovy was becoming more closely familiar with Ukrainian religious practices and falling under their influence.