Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825

Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825 is a collection of essays by leading researchers shedding new light on women as writers, actresses, nuns and missionaries. It illuminates the lives of merchant and serf women as well as noblewomen and focuses on women's culture in Russia during this period.

SARA DICKINSON Lecturer, Università degli Studi di Genova GITTA HAMMARBERG deWitt Wallace Professo, Macalester College, Minnesota, USA PAUL KEENAN Tutorial Fellow, Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK OL'GA KOSHELEVA Leading Research Fellow, Department of History, the Academy of Education, Moscow GARY MARKER Professor of Russian History, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA LURANA DONNELS O'MALLEY Professor of Theatre, University of Hawaii, USA RICHARD STITES Professor of Russian History, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, USA GALINA UL'IANOVA Senior Research Fellow, the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow WILLIAM G. WAGNER Brown Professor of History and chair of the History Department, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA