Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy PDF
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s Harvard Historical Studies 187 Published under the auspices of the Department of History from the income of the Paul Revere Frothingham Bequest Robert Louis Stroock Fund Henry Warren Torrey Fund Bankrupts and usurers of ImperIal russIa Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy sergeI a ntonov cambridge, massachusetts, & london, england • 2016 Copyright © 2016 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First printing Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Antonov, Sergei, 1977– author. Title: Bankrupts and usurers of imperial Russia : debt, property, and the law in the age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy / Sergei Antonov. Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016017879 | ISBN 9780674971486 Subjects: LCSH: Debtor and creditor—Russia—History—19th century. | Credit—Law and legislation—Russia—History—19th century. | Debt—Russia—History—19th century. | Credit—Russia—History—19th century. | Usury—Russia—History—19th century. | Russia—Social conditions—1801-1917. Classification: LCC KLA1946 .A96 2016 | DDC 346.4707/709034—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016017879 For Katya, Anya, Marina, and Nadya Contents Introduction 1 PART I: THe CULTURe oF DeBT 1 Usurers’ Tales 35 2 Nobles and Merchants 74 3 The Boundaries of Risk 105 4 Fraud, Property, and Respectability 133 5 Kinship and Family 159 PART II: DeBT AND THe LAw 6 Debtors and Bureaucrats 193 7 In the Pit with Debtors 228 8 Intermediaries, Lawyers, and Scriveners 261 9 Creditors and Debtors in Pre-Reform Courts 284 Conclusion 311 Appendix A: Glossary 317 Appendix B: The Table of Ranks (as of 1850) 319 Appendix C: St. Petersburg Pawnbrokers, 1866 321 viii Contents Appendix D.1: Objectives of Legal Representation, Based on the Powers of Attorney Registered at the Moscow Chamber of Civil Justice 323 Appendix D.2: Legal Representatives Registered at the Moscow Chamber of Civil Justice 325 Appendix E: Agreement to Provide Legal Services, 1865 327 Abbreviations 329 Notes 329 Acknowledgments 373 Index 377 Bankrupts and usurers of ImperIal russIa
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