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Title Merchant Moscow : images of Russia's vanished bourgeoisie / edited by James L. West and Iurii A. Petrov
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description ix, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 pages cm
Contents Merchant Moscow in Historical Context / James L. West -- A Note on Old Belief / James L. West -- A Note on Photography in Russia / Diane Neumaier -- About the Photographs / Mikhail Zolotarev -- Maps of Merchant Moscow -- 1. Doing Business in Merchant Moscow / Thomas C. Owen -- 2. Moscow's Commercial Mosaic / Irina V. Potkina -- 3. "Moscow City": Financial Citadel of Merchant Moscow / Iurii A. Petrov -- 4. Caftan to Business Suit: The Semiotics of Russian Merchant Dress / Christine Ruane -- 5. Old Believers and New Entrepreneurs: Religious Belief and Ritual in Merchant Moscow / Galina N. Ulianova -- 6. Daily Life among the Morozovs / Karen Pennar -- 7. Peasant Entrepreneurs and Worker Peasants: Labor Relations in Merchant Moscow / Mikhail K. Shatsillo -- 8. Daughters, Wives, and Partners: Women of the Moscow Merchant Elite / Muriel Joffe and Adele Lindenmeyr -- 9. Commercial Education and the Cultural Crisis of the Moscow Merchant Elite / Sergei V. Kalmykov
10. Aesthetics and Commerce: The Architecture of Merchant Moscow, 1890-1917 / William Craft Brumfield -- 11. Merchant Moscow After Hours: Voluntary Associations and Leisure / Joseph C. Bradley -- 12. Merchants on Stage and in Life: Theatricality and Public Consciousness / Edith W. Clowes -- 13. Visions of Russia's Entrepreneurial Future: Pavel Riabushinsky's Utopian Capitalism / James L. West -- The Fate of Merchant Moscow / James L. West
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-180) and index
Subject Businesspeople -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- History -- 19th century.
Businesspeople -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Portraits.
SUBJECT Moscow (Russia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79076156 -- Commerce http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001412 -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167
Moscow (Russia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79076156 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
Author Petrov, I͡U. A. (I͡Uriĭ Aleksandrovich), 1955-
West, James L., 1944-
LC no. 97009077
ISBN 0691012490 (cloth : alk. paper)