"This collection of essays examines the lives of women across Russia--from wealthy noblewomen in St Petersburg to desperately poor peasants in Siberia--discussi

In the early 19th century a perceived absence of literature in Russia and America gave rise to grandiose notions of literature's importance. This book examines

Richard Stites explores the dramatic shift in the history of visual and performing arts that took place in the last decades of serfdom in Russia in the 1860s an