Contents: List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: BUSINESS CULTURE 1 St. Petersburg: Banking Center of the Russian Empire 2 European Business Culture and St. Petersburg Banks 3 Funded Loans in Petersburg and the Development of the Municipal Infrastructure, 1875-1916 4 The Banking Network of Moscow at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 5 Charitable Activities of Moscow Banks 6 Old Believers and New Entrepreneurs: Old Belief and Entrepreneurial Culture in Imperial Russia 7 Entrepreneurs and Philanthropy in Nizhnii Novgorod, from the Nineteenth Century to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century PART II: COMMERCE AND THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT 8 The Architecture of Petersburg Banks in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 9 The Architecture of Moscow Banks in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 10 From the Lower Depths to the Upper Trading Rows: The Design of Retail Shopping Centers in Moscow 11 Commerce and Architecture in Odessa in Late Imperial Russia 12 Creating a New Style in the Architecture of the Russian Provinces: The Case of Nizhnii 13 Pragmatic Pluralists in Gilded Age Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka: Making Fragmentation Work Contributors Index
William C. Brumfield is a professor in the department of Germanic and Slavic languages at Tulane University; he is a major historian and photographer of Russian architecture. Boris V. Anan'ich is with the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Yuri A. Petrov is head of the Department of Contemporary History at the same institute.
Readers interested in the urban, business, social, or cultural history of Russia will find something to chew on in this volume. It provides an excellent synthesis of recent American and Russian scholarship that is rich in archival material and analysis. -- Jonathan Grant Russian Review 2003
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