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Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700–1825 This page intentionally left blank Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700–1825 Edited by Wendy Rosslyn and Alessandra Tosi Editorial matter and selection © Wendy Rosslyn and Alessandra Tosi 2007. Introduction and Chapter 3 © Alessandra Tosi 2007. Chapter 11 and Appendix © Wendy Rosslyn 2007. All remaining chapters © their respective authors 2007. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2007 978-0-230-55323-1 All rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham Court Road,London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2007 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St.Martin’s Press,LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States,United Kingdom and other countries.Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-36305-6 ISBN 978-0-230-58990-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230589902 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources.Logging,pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of thecountry of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 Contents List of Tables vii Acknowledgements viii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Alessandra Tosi Part I Women and the Arts 1 Signs from Empresses and Actresses: Women and Theatre in the Eighteenth Century 9 Lurana Donnels O’Malley 2 Female Serfs in the Performing World 24 Richard Stites 3 Women and Literature, Women in Literature: Female Authors of Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century 39 Alessandra Tosi 4 Women’s Travel and Travel Writing in Russia, 1700–1825 63 Sara Dickinson 5 The First Russian Women’s Journals and the Construction of the Reader 83 Gitta Hammarberg Part II Women and Society 6 ‘Without Going to a Regular Court…’: The Phenomenon of the ‘Divorce Letter’ in Petrine Russia 107 Ol’ga Kosheleva 7 The Function of Fashion: Women and Clothing at the Russian Court (1700–1762) 125 Paul Keenan v vi Contents 8 Merchant Women in Business in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 144 Galina Ul’ianova Part III Femininity and Religious Life 9 Sacralising Female Rule, 1725–1761 171 Gary Marker 10 Female Orthodox Monasticism in Eighteenth–Century Imperial Russia: The Experience of Nizhnii Novgorod 191 William G. Wagner 11 Women with a Mission: British Female Evangelicals in the Russian Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century 219 Wendy Rosslyn Select Bibliography (2001–2006): Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700–1825 241 Wendy Rosslyn Index 251 List of Tables 8.1 Number of enterprises owned by women by branch of industrial activity 151 8.2 Soap-boiling enterprises in Kazan’ 156 8.3 Data on women of the merchant estate and the value of their property lost in consequence of the burning of Moscow during the war of 1812–1852 160 10.1 Convents in Nizhnii Novgorod diocese (1799 borders), during the eighteenth century 196 vii Acknowledgements The editors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Universities of Exeter and Nottingham in funding preparations for this volume. viii Notes on Contributors Sara Dickinson has degrees in Slavic studies from the University of Chicago, Indiana University, and Harvard. A specialist in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture, she currently teaches at the Università degli Studi di Genova. Her recent publications include the book Breaking Ground: Travel and National Culture in Russia from Peter I to the Era of Pushkin (2006) and several articles, including ‘Representing Moscow in 1812: Sentimentalist Echoes in Accounts of the Napoleonic Occupation’ (in Moscow and Petersburg: The City in Russian Culture, ed. Ian K. Lilly, 2002) and ‘The Russian Tour of Europe Before Fonvizin: Travel Writing as Literary Endeavor in Eighteenth- Century Russia’ (Slavic and East European Journal, 2001). Gitta Hammarberg is Dewitt Wallace Professor at Macalester College, where she has taught Russian literature and language since receiving her PhD at the University of Michigan in 1983. She has published a book From the Idyll to the Novel: Karamzin’s Sentimentalist Prose (1991, 2006) and authored articles on minor sentimentalists, album verse and literary trivia, women’s journals, memoirs, Russian spa culture, and Gogol. She is currently working on a monograph on Karamzin’s heirs and the feminisation of Alexandrine culture (Time of Peter the Great, 2004). Paul Keenan is currently a Tutorial Fellow in the Department of International History in the London School of Economics and Political Science. He recently completed his doctorate (at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London) on the social and cultural development of St Petersburg in the first half of the eighteenth century, with a particular focus on the influence of the Imperial court. Ol’ga Kosheleva is Leading Research Fellow in the Department of History, Institute of Theory and History of Russian Pedagogy at the Academy of Education in Moscow. Her recent publications include ‘Episodes from Women’s Lives in the Reign of Peter I’ in Women and Gender in 18th-Century Russia, edited by Wendy Rosslyn (2003) and the volume Liudi Sankt-Peterburgskogo ostrova Petrovskogo vremeni(The People of St Peterburg Island in the Petrine Era). Gary Marker is Professor of Russian History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has published numerous studies of print ix

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