Introduction
1: The Enlightened Metropolis and the Imperial Social Project
2: Space and Time in the Enlightened Metropolis
3: Envisioning the Enlightened Metropolis: Images of Moscow under
Catherine II
4: Barbarism, Civility, Luxury: Writing about Moscow in the
1790s-1820s
5: Government, Aristocracy, and the Middling Sort
6: The 1812 War
7: Common Folk in Nicholaevan Moscow
8: Complacency and Anxiety: Representations of Moscow under
Nicholas I
Conclusion
Winner of the 2013 Marc Raeff Book Prize from the Eighteenth Century Russian Studies Association
Alexander M. Martin is associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame (USA). He is the author of Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries: Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I (1997).
Enlightened Metropolis offers an important revisionist challenge to
Moscow's marginal status in the modernization of the Russian
Empire.
*Daniel Beer, The Times Literary Supplement*
[a] fine new history of Moscow
*James Cracraft, English Historical Review*
This work will become and should remain a standard reference point
for studies of Moscow and indeed Russia of this period for decades
to come.
*Paul Keenan, History*
Enlightened Metropolis is a prodigiously researched book ... The
reader is amazed by the wealth of sources and statistics and the
relentless comparison of Moscow with Russian and other European
cities ... [Martin] has significantly advanced the urban, social,
institutional, and cultural study of the empire during the
watershed period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries.
*Cynthia Hyla Whittaker, Journal of Modern History*
The book will become essential to any course on Russian cities, and
would be equally well suited to courses on comparative urban
history, or on Russian social history because of its nuanced and
original perspective on Russian social hierarchies ... the book
offers scholars rich detail on material culture, everyday life,
urban personal narratives, the development of Russian urban
ethnography, and memory and nostalgia. It should be required
reading for anyone interested in the history of imperial
Russia.
*Katherine Pickering Antonova, Ab Imperio*
Alexander Martin's Enlightened Metropolis is important and
admirable work, which gives to Moscow its rightful place in a
Russian Enlightenment ... masterful
*Albert J. Schmidt, Journal of Social History*
an enormously rich account based on extensive historical research
... contextualizing Moscow's history within the wider history of
urban Europe, and providing an account illuminating the city's
history from a number of competing perspectives -- including those
of the rich, poor, and middling, as well as those of foreigners.
Martin's is thus a well-rounded history of Moscow as an idea, a
built environment, and a lived community.
*Comments from the Urban History Association on the award of the
2015 prize for the best book of 2013-2014 in non-North American
urban history*
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