Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface and Acknowledgements xiii
5. Introduction: City Panorama 1
6. 1. Moscow Station and Palace Bridge 23
7. 2. Making a Home on the Neva 63
8. 3. ‘The Hermitage and My Own Front Door’: City Spaces 93
9. 4. Initiation into the Working Class 129
10. 5. Eliseev and Aprashka 170
11. 6. Theatre Street 209
12. 7. From Nord to Saigon 251
13. 8. The Twenty- Seventh Kilometre 279
14. 9. The Last Journey 312
15. 10. Afterword 332
16. Abbreviations and Conventions 338
17. Notes 341
18. Glossary and List of Major Place Names 428
19. Sources and their Uses 431
20. Select Bibliography 435
21. Index 453