Commerce in Russian urban culture
Subtitle: 1861-1914
By: edited by William Craft Brumfield, Boris V. Anan'ich, and Yuri A. Petrov
Contributors: Brumfield, William Craft, 1944-; Ananʹich, B. V; Petrov, I︠U︡. A. kandidat istoricheskikh nauk; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Banks and banking -- Russia; Cities and towns -- Russia; Sociology, Urban -- Russia; Russia -- Commerce -- History; Russia -- Economic conditions -- 1861-1917; Russia -- Civilization -- 1801-1917
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Business culture. St. Petersburg : banking center of the Russian Empire / Boris V. Anan'ich and Sergei G. Beliaev. European business culture and St. Petersburg banks / Sergei K. Lebedev. Funded loans in Petersburg and the development of the municipal infrastructure, 1875-1916 / Sergei G. Beliaev. The banking network of Moscow at the turn of the twentieth century / Yuri A. Petrov. Charitable activities of Moscow banks / Galina Ulianova. Old Believers and new entrepreneurs : old belief and entrepreneurial culture in Imperial Russia / James L. West. Entrepreneurs and philanthropy in Nizhnii Novgorod, from the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century / Galina Ulianova.; title: pt. 2. Commerce and the urban environment. The architecture of Petersburg banks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Boris M. Kirikov. The architecture of Moscow banks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuris / Natalia Datieva. From the lower depths to the upper trading rows: the design of retail shopping centers in Moscow / William Craft Brunfield. Commerce and architecture in Odessa in late Imperial Russia / Patricia Herlihy. Creating a new style in the architecture of the Russian provinces : the case of Nizhnii Novgorod / William Craft Brumfield. Pragmatic pluralists in gilded age Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka : making fragmentation work / Blair A. Ruble