Women in nineteenth-century Russia lives and culture / [electronic resource] : edited by Wendy Rosslyn and Alessandra Tosi. - 1 online resource (ix, 249 pages) : illustrations.

Available through Open Book Publishers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : framing the view : Russian women in the long nineteenth century / Sibelan Forrester -- Women and urban culture / Barbara Alpern Engel -- Russian peasant women's culture : three voices / Christine D. Worobec -- Mary and women in late Imperial Russian Orthodoxy / Vera Shevzov -- Women and the visual arts / Rosalind P. Blakesley -- Women and music / Philip Ross Bullock -- The rise of the actress in early nineteenth-century Russia / Julie A. Cassiday -- "How women should write" : Russian women's writing in the nineteenth century / Arja Rosenholm and Irina Savkina -- Between law and morality : violence against women in nineteenth-century Russia / Marianna G. Muravyeva -- Index.

Open access resource providing free access.


Mode of access: World Wide Web.


Some rights are reserved. This book is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.

9781906924676 9781906924683 9781906924690


Women--History--Russia--19th century.
Women--Social conditions--Russia--19th century.


Russia--Civilization--1801-1917.
Russia--Social conditions--1801-1917.