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Contents

Acknowledgments

1

Notes on Contributors

3

Introduction

Simon Franklin

7

I. MAP-MAKING

1.

Early Mapping: The Tsardom in Manuscript

Valerie Kivelson

23

2.

New Technology and the Mapping of Empire: The Adoption of the Astrolabe

Aleksei Golubinskii

59

II. INTERNATIONAL NEWS AND POST

3.

Muscovy and the European Information Revolution: Creating the Mechanisms for Obtaining Foreign News

Daniel C. Waugh and Ingrid Maier

77

4.

How Was Western Europe Informed about Muscovy? The Razin Rebellion in Focus

Ingrid Maier

113

III. NEWS AND POST IN RUSSIA

5.

Communication and Obligation: The Postal System of the Russian Empire, 1700–1850

John Randolph

155

6.

Information and Efficiency: Russian Newspapers, ca.1700–1850

Alison K. Smith

185

7.

What Was News and How Was It Communicated in Pre-Modern Russia?

Daniel C. Waugh

213

IV. INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND COMMUNICATION

8.

Bureaucracy and Knowledge Creation: The Apothecary Chancery

Clare Griffin

255

9.

What Could the Empress Know About Her Money? Russian Poll Tax Revenues in the Eighteenth Century

Elena Korchmina

287

10.

Communication and Official Enlightenment: The Journal of the Ministry of Public Education, 1834–1855

Ekaterina Basargina

311

V. INFORMATION AND PUBLIC DISPLAY

11.

Information in Plain Sight: The Formation of the Public Graphosphere

Simon Franklin

341

12.

Experiencing Information: An Early Nineteenth-Century Stroll Along Nevskii Prospekt

Katherine Bowers

369

Selected Further Reading

409

List of Figures

417

Index

423