The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600–Present

Cover\nHalf Title\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nFigures\nMap\nContributors\nAcknowledgments\nThe Life Cycle of Russian Things: An Introduction\nPart 1 Transforming Things\n	1 Immateriality and Intermateriality: The Vanishing Centrality of Apothecary Ware in Russian Medicine (Clare Griffin)\n	2 Lime and Limestone in Eighteenth-Century Russia (Alison K. Smith)\n	3 Underground Materials: The (Un)making of Samizdat Texts (Ann Komaromi)\nPart 2 Making Things\n	4 Making Fish Guts into Isinglass and Glue (Matthew P. Romaniello)\n	5 The Thickness of a Plaid: Textiles on the Chikhachev Estate in 1830s Vladimir Province (Katherine Pickering Antonova)\n	6 Sugar as a “Basic Necessity”: State Efforts to Supply the Russian Empire’s Population in the Early Twentieth Century (Charle\nPart 3 Touching Things\n	7 Making Samovars Russian (Audra Yoder)\n	8 “Constant Companions”: Fabergé Tobacco Cases and Sensory Prompts to Addiction in Late Imperial Russia (Tricia Starks)\n	9 Socialism in One Tank: The T-34 as a Microcosm (Brandon Schechter)\nPart 4 Preserving Things\n	10 Binding Siberia: Semen Remezov’s Khorograficheskaia Kniga in Time and through Time (Erika Monahan)\n	11 “Rather Poor and Threadbare”: Bogoras, Scratching-Woman, and the Intimacy of Material (Marisa Karyl Franz)\n	12 “Kunstschutz” in the War of Annihilation or the Power of Images against Ideology (Ulrike Schmiegelt-Rietig)\nSelect Bibliography\nIndex