The Imperial Russian Noble Elite and Westernization: The Family Eizen-fon- Shvartsenberg

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. List of Illustrations ix
5. Introduction xi
6. Tabula Gratulatoria xvi
7. A Biographical Essay: The Making of the Historian 1
8. From Publishing to Prokopovich: Gary Marker’s Scholarly Contributions 17
9. Word
10. Once Again on Whether Byzantine Law Was Applied to the Administration of the Law in Medieval Rus’ 33
11. About Peter the Great’s Ship Predestinatsiia 43
12. Eighteenth-Century Botanical Literature and the Origins of an Elite Russian Gardening Community 55
13. Catherine’s Liberation of the Greeks: High-Minded Discourse and Everyday Realities 71
14. A Proletarian Encyclopédie 90
15. Image
16. The Parsuna of Gavrila Fetiev: Can a Picture Speak? 118
17. Tracking the Travels of Adam Olearius 133
18. Catherine the Great and the Art of Collecting: Acquiring the Paintings that Founded the Hermitage 147
19. Rozanov’s Peter 172
20. Gender
21. The Question of Women in Power in the Eighteenth Century 191
22. Businesswomen in Eighteenth-Century Russian Provincial Towns 206
23. Religion
24. Dialogue and Conflict in the Ostroh Principality: The Year 1636 222
25. Connecting the Dots: Jewish Mysticism, Ritual Murder, and the Trial of Mendel Beilis 238
26. Forms of Literacy
27. Education and the East: The Omsk Asiatic School 253
28. What Should One Teach? A New Approach to Russian Childhood Education as Reflected in Manuscripts from the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century 269
29. The Education of Parish Clergy in the Kyiv Eparchy in the 1770s 296
30. Civil Society and Politics
31. Civil Society and Politics 315
32. The Imperial Russian Noble Elite and Westernization: The Family Eizen-fon- Shvartsenberg 336
33. “Only the principle of public life and the full rights of citizenship”: The Russian Technical Society, the Public Sphere, and the Revolution of 1905 359
34. Publications of Gary Marker 382