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Contents: Introduction; Women in Russia (1700-1825): recent research, Wendy Rosslyn; 'The crown of maidenly honour and virtue': redefining femininity in Peter I's Russia, Lindsey Hughes; Feminisation as functionalisation: the presentation of femininity by the sentimentalist man, Carolin Heyder and Arja Rosenholm; Cosmetics - or dying to overcome nature in an age of art and artifice, Helena Goscilo; Love and the lap-dog, Semeon Ekshtut; Russian noblewomen's education in the home as revealed in late 18th- and early 19th-century memoirs, Natal'ia L. Pushkareva: Imaginary world: reading in the lives of Russian provincial noblewomen (1750-1825), Olga E. Glagoleva; Women's letters and Russian noble culture of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Anna Belova; Observations on the life and work of Elizaveta Kheraskova (1737-1809), Frank Göpfert; Women, critics, and women critics in early Russian women's journals; Gitta Hammarberg; From maintenance to entitlement: defining the dowry in 18th-century Russia, Michelle Lamarche Marrese; Marriage, church, and community in 18th-century St Petersburg, Robin Bisha; Episodes from women's lives in the reign of Peter I, Ol'ga Kosheleva; Female employees in the Russian Imperial Theatres (1785-1825), Wendy Rosslyn; Index.