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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Framing the View: Russian Women in the Long Nineteenth Century -- 2. Women and Urban Culture -- 3. Russian Peasant Women's Culture: Three Voices -- 4. Mary and Women in Late Imperial Russian Orthodoxy -- 5. Women and the Visual Arts -- 6. Women and Music -- 7. The Rise of the Actress in Early Nineteenth-Century Russia -- 8. 'How Women Should Write': Russian Women's Writing in the Nineteenth Century -- 9. Between Law and Morality: Violence against Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia -- Index.

"This collection of essays examines the lives of women across Russia--from wealthy noblewomen in St Petersburg to desperately poor peasants in Siberia--discussing their interaction with the Church and the law, and their rich contribution to music, art, literature and theatre. It shows how women struggled for greater autonomy and, both individually and collectively, developed a dynamic presence in Russia's culture and society"--Publisher's description