Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. A WOMAN’S EMPIRE 1
6. PART ONE Women and Empire: Imperial Domesticity and Its Discontents
7. 1 Reinforcing the State at the Imperial Periphery: The Governor-General’s Wife 37
8. 2 Turkestan through Russian Eyes: Elena Apreleva’s Central Asian Sketches 71
9. PART TWO Theosophy, Hunting, and Constructing the Nation in the Shadow of the Great Game
10. 3 Propagandist of Russian Imperialism: Madame Blavatsky in India 109
11. 4 Hunting, Photography, and National Rivalry: In the Pamirs 1 150
12. PART THREE Science in the Name of the Nation: Women Scientists, Archaeologists, and Ethnographers
13. 5 In Pursuit of Imperial Knowledge: Ol’ga Fedchenko, Aleksandra Potanina, Praskov’ia Uvarova, and Anna Rossikova 189
14. Conclusion 238
15. Notes 243
16. Bibliography 311
17. Index 333