Ekaterina Heath is Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the serving President of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire Studies Association.

Women, Gardens and Agency in Imperial Russia presents a highly original study of Empress Maria Feodorovna through the lens of garden culture and spatial politics, offering a gendered and material perspective on power in late 18th and early 19th century Russia. By centring the study on Empress Maria Feodorovna and her transformation of Pavlovsk Park into a political and autobiographical landscape, the book offers a rare intersection of imperial Russian history, landscape architecture, and gender studies. This innovative historical focus allows for a fresh reading of power relations in the Russian court and draws attention to the spatial strategies employed by female figures historically underexplored.

• Introduction 1. Imperial Family: Building Bridge 2. Plants in the Garden: Growing the Power Base 3. Diplomacy: Weaving the Networks of Power 4. Grief: Turning Defeat into Victory 5. Pavlovsk Panopticon: Arguing against Abolishing Serfdom 6. Charity: Creating Legacy through Rewriting History ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Ekaterina Heath is Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the serving President of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire Studies Association.

Women, Gardens and Agency in Imperial Russia presents a highly original study of Empress Maria Feodorovna through the lens of garden culture and spatial politics, offering a gendered and material perspective on power in late 18th and early 19th century Russia. By centring the study on Empress Maria Feodorovna and her transformation of Pavlovsk Park into a political and autobiographical landscape, the book offers a rare intersection of imperial Russian history, landscape architecture, and gender studies. This innovative historical focus allows for a fresh reading of power relations in the Russian court and draws attention to the spatial strategies employed by female figures historically underexplored.

• Introduction 1. Imperial Family: Building Bridge 2. Plants in the Garden: Growing the Power Base 3. Diplomacy: Weaving the Networks of Power 4. Grief: Turning Defeat into Victory 5. Pavlovsk Panopticon: Arguing against Abolishing Serfdom 6. Charity: Creating Legacy through Rewriting History ConclusionBibliographyIndex