Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-333) and index.
Contents
The enlightened metropolis and the imperial social project -- Space and time in the enlightened metropolis -- Envisioning the enlightened metropolis: images of Moscow under Catherine II -- Barbarism, civility, luxury: writing about Moscow in the 1790s-1820s -- Government, aristocracy, and the middling sort -- The 1812 War -- Common folk in Nicholaevan Moscow -- Complacency and anxiety: representations of Moscow under Nicholas I.
