Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2001. — 265 p.Tsarist Russia's commercial class is today receiving serious attention from both Russian and non-Russian historians. This book is a contribution to that literature. Commerce in Russian Urban Culture, 1861-1914 examines the relation between the entrepreneurial world, especially business and banking, and the cultural milieu of Russia. Going beyond the commercial cultural.
connection of charitable activity, the contributors to this collaborative project also study.
cultural endeavors undertaken by enterprises for their own purposes, notably bank and commercial architecture. This volume explores culture and commerce in two ways. First, it looks within the business milieu itself and assesses class and social stratification, types of entrepreneurs and their men tality, religious affiliations, charitable activities, and donations.Introduction.
Boris V. Anan'ich, William Craft Brumfield, and Yuri A. Petrov.
Business Сulture.
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.
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 Centuries.
Natalia Datieva.
From the Lower Depths to the Upper Trading Rows: The Design of Retail Shopping Centers.
n Moscow.
William Craft Brumfield.
Commerce and Architecture in Odessa in Late Imperial Russia.
Pragmatic Pluralists in Gilded Age.
Patricia Herlihy.
Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka: Making Fragmentation Work.
Blair A. Ruble.
Creating a New Style in the Architecture of the Russian Provinces: The Case of Nizhnii Novgorod.
William Craft Brumfield.
Contributors.
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