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Introduction 1. 'Objectionable and obnoxious': Constantin Catacazy's early life and career -- 2. 'Fictitious pretentions': the Perkins claims -- 3. 'The intermeddling of the Russian minister': the Alabama claims -- 4. 'Falsehood, intrigue and hostility': Catacazy's breaches of protocol -- 5. 'She had a story and a past': Olga Catacazy and the Washington wives -- 6. 'A thorough mischief maker': the recall of Catacazy -- 7. 'He ... smirked too much to be dignified': the last years of Constantin Catacazy -- 8. Conclusion: the significance of the Catacazy affair.

Property and inheritance laws in the Muscovite period -- The petrine revolution -- "Everyone sees the world from his own bell tower": the law of single inheritance and its repeal -- Fool's gold : property legislation under Catherine II -- Women, inheritance, and the boundaries of kinship -- The best laid plans : the problem of the childless landowner -- The long arm of the law : redemption and confiscation -- The many dimensions of noble insecurity

On the way to Russia -- From the frontier to Petrograd -- Petrograd -- Smolny -- Explanation of political parties -- The Democratic Congress -- The preparliament and the Soviet of the Russian Republic -- The fall of the Winter Palace -- The Constituent Assembly -- Katherine Breshkovsky -- Kerensky -- Two ministers of welfare; Panina and Kollontay -- Lenin and Trotsky -- A triumvirate -- Marie Spiridonova -- From one army to the other -- Red guards and cossacks -- The Red burial -- Revolutionary Tribunal -- The Foreign Office -- Women soldiers -- Free speech -- Street fighting -- Men of honor -- German propaganda -- Russian children -- The decline of the church -- Odds and ends of revolution -- A talk with the enemy -- Shopping in Germany -- Adventures as a Bolshevik courier