Title: Portrait of a Russian province : economy, society, and civilization in nineteenth-century Nizhnii Novgorod /
Authors: Evtuhov, Catherine.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Country life Russia (Federation) Nizhniĭ Novgorod History; Nizhniĭ Novgorod (Russia) Civilization; Nizhniĭ Novgorod (Russia) Economic conditions; Nizhniĭ Novgorod (Russia) Social conditions; Nizhniĭ Novgorod (Russia) Intellectual life
Contents: Imagining the Russian Provinces -- Soil, forest, river : the ecology of provincial life -- Urban topography -- Rhythms : the local economy -- An Artisanal case study: the Southeast -- Social space : numbers, images, biographies -- Managing the province : local administration -- The Cadastral map in the service of the Zemstvo -- Church and religion -- Provincial cultural nests -- The idea of province.