- Introduction
- I. The Culture of Debt
- 1. Usurers’ Tales
- 2. Nobles and Merchants
- 3. The Boundaries of Risk
- 4. Fraud, Property, and Respectability
- 5. Kinship and Family
- II. Debt and the Law
- 6. Debtors and Bureaucrats
- 7. In the Pit with Debtors
- 8. Intermediaries, Lawyers, and Scriveners
- 9. Creditors and Debtors in Pre-Reform Courts
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: Glossary
- Appendix B: The Table of Ranks (as of 1850)
- Appendix C: St. Petersburg Pawnbrokers, 1866
- Appendix D.1: Objectives of Legal Representation, Based on the Powers of Attorney Registered at the Moscow Chamber of Civil Justice
- Appendix D.2: Legal Representatives Registered at the Moscow Chamber of Civil Justice
- Appendix E: Agreement to Provide Legal Services, 1865
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
HARVARD HISTORICAL STUDIES
Harvard Historical Studies 187
Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia
Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
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