Alexander M. Martin is associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame (USA). He is the author of Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries: Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I (1997).
* Introduction
* 1: The Enlightened Metropolis and the Imperial Social Project
* 2: Space and Time in the Enlightened Metropolis
* 3: Envisioning the Enlightened Metropolis: Images of Moscow under
Catherine II
* 4: Barbarism, Civility, Luxury: Writing about Moscow in the
1790s-1820s
* 5: Government, Aristocracy, and the Middling Sort
* 6: The 1812 War
* 7: Common Folk in Nicholaevan Moscow
* 8: Complacency and Anxiety: Representations of Moscow under Nicholas
I
* Conclusion