C. P. Lesley is the pseudonym of Carolyn Pouncy, a historian of 16th-century Russia and the managing editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. My edited and translated edition of The Domostroi: Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994) and years of research into Ivan IV and his times gave rise to the Legends of the Five Directions series.