He will spend four months (January–April 2009) researching the topic “Muscovites in Ruthenian Lands: Social Integration, Cultural Identity, and Historical Memory (1540s – 1640s).” Jerusalimsky seeks to reconstruct the social status, cultural identities, and memory of Muscovites on Polish and Lithuanian service in the eastern Ruthenian lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the 1540s to the 1640s. He hopes to come to a better understanding of the reasons and motives for flight from Russia.