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Whether Poland adopted a hostile or a friendly stance toward Russia, the intense responses of Russian thinkers, writers, and political leaders to Poland and to Polish culture shaped Russians' idea of themselves and their place in the world. This title points to the historical ties and mutual influences of Poland and Russia.

Based on the diary of an 18th-century Russian provincial merchant Ivan Alekseevich Tolchenov, this title presents a portrait of Russia's little-known commercial class. Challenging prevailing stereotypes of Russian merchants as tradition-bound and narrow-minded, it offers important fresh insights into the social history of imperial Russia.

(A)n outstanding work of historical ethnography.... The book offerswonderful insight into how women created and understood the great changes of the20th century. It is unique in its scope and its intimate knowledge of rurallife." -- Russian Review "(A) major contribution to thefield.... an important book that should be of considerable interest to medicalhistorians and historians of peasants, the family, and of women." -- AmericanHistorical Revi...

At a time when Poland is emphasizing its distance from Russia, PolishEncounters, Russian Identity points to the historical ties and mutual influences ofthese two great Slavic peoples. Whether Poland adopted a hostile or a friendlystance toward Russia, the intense responses of Russian thinkers, writers, andpolitical leaders to Poland and to Polish culture shaped Russians' idea ofthemselves and their place in the world. Countering the recent tre...

At the height of its operation in the second half of the nineteenth century, the central foundling home in Moscow was receiving 17, 000 children each year. The home dispatched most to wet nurses and foster care in the countryside, where at any one time it supervised over 40, 000 children in Moscow province and six adjoining provinces. Established by Empress Catherine II in the middle of the eighteenth century, the two central foundling homes (...

The daily lives of an 18th-century Russian merchant family