MICHAEL J BITTER Assistant Professor of History, University of Hawaii at Hilo, HawaiiANTHONY CROSS Professor of Slavonic Studies, University of CambridgeMARIA DI SALVO Professor of Slavic Philology, University of Milan, ItalyJANET M HARTLEY Senior Lecturer in International History, London School of Economics and Political ScienceLINDSEY HUGHES Professor of Russian History and Director of the Center for Russian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College LondonGEORGE E MUNRO Researcher, Virginia Commonwealth University, USAPATRICK J O'MEARA Associate Professor of Russian at Trinity College, University of DublinWENDY ROSSLYN Professor of Russian Literature, University of NottinghamDENIS SHAW Reader in Russian Geography, University of Birmingham

• List of Maps and Plates Acknowledgement Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.Cross St Petersburg and Geographies of Modernity in Eighteenth-Century Russia; D.J.B.Shaw St Petersburg During the Reign of Anna Ivanovna: The Forbes/Maas Chart and the Evolution of the Early Mapping of the City; M.J.Bitter The English Embankment; A.Cross A Venice of the North: Italian Views of St Petersburg; M.di Salvo Compiling and Maintaining St Petersburg's 'Book of City Inhabitants': The 'Real' City Inhabitants; G.E.Munro Governing the City: St Petersburg and Catherine II's Reforms; J. M.Hartley Petersburg Actresses on and off Stage (1775-1825); W.Rosslyn Peter the Great's St Petersburg in the Works of Pavel Svin'in (1787-1839); L.Hughes Vreden sever: The Decembrists' Memories of the Peter-Paul Fortress, P.O'Meara Index