Christopher J. Ward is Professor of History at Clayton State University in metropolitan Atlanta. Ward serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review and is the author of Brezhnev’s Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism, Revolutionary Russia, 1917, and Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus’ to the Present.

• Introduction: Moscow as Metropole and Nexus 1. Moscow as Sacred City 2. The Late Seventeenth-Century Moscow Epiphany Ritual 3. The Menshikov Tower and Peter I’s Moscow in the 1700s 4. “A Collection of Mansions”: Urban Gardening and Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century Moscow 5. Behind the Grand Facades in an Unassuming Alleyway: Evangelicals in Moscow 6. Boris Nikolayevich Chicherin as the gorodskoi golova of Moscow: Municipal Government Between the Reform and the Counter-Reform 7. The Occult in Moscow during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 8. Applying the Concentric Model: The Urbanization of Moscow during the 19th and 20th Centuries 9. Isadora Duncan’s Educational Project in Moscow 10. Welcome to Moscow: Reflections on the Northern River Terminal 11. Directing the Future in Stalinist Moscow: The Avenue of the Palace of the Soviets 12. “Where the Spanish Pulse Beats”: Moscow’s Spanish Center, 1966-2024 13. Moscow: A Soviet Mecca for Africans 14. From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir the Great: Moscow’s Monumental Makeover, 1991–2024 15. Migration Control in Modern Moscow 16. The Third Rome in Contemporary Russian Media Space 17. Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of This City: Moscow as Site of Media Reconstruction, Resilience, and Resistance 18. Governing a Large Metropolis within Russian Federalism: The Case of the Moscow Transportation System 19. “Your Face Is Big Data” in Moscow: Official Presentation of the Smart City versus Everyday Reality 20. The History of Moscow: Online Resources

Christopher J. Ward is Professor of History at Clayton State University in metropolitan Atlanta. Ward serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review and is the author of Brezhnev’s Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism, Revolutionary Russia, 1917, and Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus’ to the Present.

• Introduction: Moscow as Metropole and Nexus 1. Moscow as Sacred City 2. The Late Seventeenth-Century Moscow Epiphany Ritual 3. The Menshikov Tower and Peter I’s Moscow in the 1700s 4. “A Collection of Mansions”: Urban Gardening and Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century Moscow 5. Behind the Grand Facades in an Unassuming Alleyway: Evangelicals in Moscow 6. Boris Nikolayevich Chicherin as the gorodskoi golova of Moscow: Municipal Government Between the Reform and the Counter-Reform 7. The Occult in Moscow during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 8. Applying the Concentric Model: The Urbanization of Moscow during the 19th and 20th Centuries 9. Isadora Duncan’s Educational Project in Moscow 10. Welcome to Moscow: Reflections on the Northern River Terminal 11. Directing the Future in Stalinist Moscow: The Avenue of the Palace of the Soviets 12. “Where the Spanish Pulse Beats”: Moscow’s Spanish Center, 1966-2024 13. Moscow: A Soviet Mecca for Africans 14. From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir the Great: Moscow’s Monumental Makeover, 1991–2024 15. Migration Control in Modern Moscow 16. The Third Rome in Contemporary Russian Media Space 17. Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of This City: Moscow as Site of Media Reconstruction, Resilience, and Resistance 18. Governing a Large Metropolis within Russian Federalism: The Case of the Moscow Transportation System 19. “Your Face Is Big Data” in Moscow: Official Presentation of the Smart City versus Everyday Reality 20. The History of Moscow: Online Resources

Christopher J. Ward is Professor of History at Clayton State University in metropolitan Atlanta. Ward serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review and is the author of Brezhnev’s Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism, Revolutionary Russia, 1917, and Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus’ to the Present.

• Introduction: Moscow as Metropole and Nexus 1. Moscow as Sacred City 2. The Late Seventeenth-Century Moscow Epiphany Ritual 3. The Menshikov Tower and Peter I’s Moscow in the 1700s 4. “A Collection of Mansions”: Urban Gardening and Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century Moscow 5. Behind the Grand Facades in an Unassuming Alleyway: Evangelicals in Moscow 6. Boris Nikolayevich Chicherin as the gorodskoi golova of Moscow: Municipal Government Between the Reform and the Counter-Reform 7. The Occult in Moscow during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 8. Applying the Concentric Model: The Urbanization of Moscow during the 19th and 20th Centuries 9. Isadora Duncan’s Educational Project in Moscow 10. Welcome to Moscow: Reflections on the Northern River Terminal 11. Directing the Future in Stalinist Moscow: The Avenue of the Palace of the Soviets 12. “Where the Spanish Pulse Beats”: Moscow’s Spanish Center, 1966-2024 13. Moscow: A Soviet Mecca for Africans 14. From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir the Great: Moscow’s Monumental Makeover, 1991–2024 15. Migration Control in Modern Moscow 16. The Third Rome in Contemporary Russian Media Space 17. Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of This City: Moscow as Site of Media Reconstruction, Resilience, and Resistance 18. Governing a Large Metropolis within Russian Federalism: The Case of the Moscow Transportation System 19. “Your Face Is Big Data” in Moscow: Official Presentation of the Smart City versus Everyday Reality 20. The History of Moscow: Online Resources