Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads and Images from Russian Urban Life, 1779-1917. By James von Geldern and Louise McReynolds

The Heyday of Absolutism. Late 18thCentury--1825

• Anecdotes about Balakirev (Traditional Tales)
• Tales of the Ancient Poshekhonians. Vasily Berezaisky (1798)
• The Merry Old Fellow. Teller of Old Moscow Tales (1790)
• The Ancient and Modern Divinatory Oracle. Martin Zadek (1821)
• Guak, or Unbounded Devotion. A Knightly Tale (Eighteenth Century)
• The Tale of Vanka Kain (1815)
• The New Sterne. A. A. Shakhovskoi (1805)
• "Traditional Songs" (Late Eighteenth Century)*

Commerce Asserts its Mediating Presence.1825--1860

• Ermak Timofeich. Nikolai Polevoi (1845)
• Filatka and Miroshka the Rivals. Pavel Grigoriev, Jr (1833)
• Ivan Vyzhigin. Faddei Bulgarin (1829)
• The Little Humpbacked Horse. Petr Ershov (1834)
• The History of Russia Told for Children. Aleksandra Ishimova (1838)
• The Battle of the Russians with the Kabardinians. Nikolai Zriakhov (1842)
• Etiquette Manuals (1849-1911)
• Street Types. Illustrations by M. Pikki and K. Richau (1860)
• God Save the Tsar. Aleksei Lvov (1833)*
• Dark Eyes. Evgeny Grebenka (1843)*
• The Great Moscow Fire. N. Sokolov (1850)*
• Elegy (Khas-Bulat). Aleksandr Ammosov and O. Kh. Agrenova&endash;Slavianskaia (1858)*

Great Reforms and the Expansion of Civic Space.1861--1881

• Balagan Advertisments. Malafeev Theater (1883)
• The Slums of Petersburg. Vsevolod Krestovsky (1864)
• The Tale of How the Russian Gave It Hot to a German (1869)
• Oh Those Yaroslavites, What a Fine Folk! Fedor Ivanich Kuz'ma (1868)
• The Slums of the Female Heart (1870)
• Correspondence from the Russo-Turkish War. Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko (1876-77)
• War Stories from the Present-Day War with the Turks. M. Evstigneev (1879)
• Where is It Better? L. A. Tikhomirov (1873)
• A Flask of Hooch (1882)
• Gypsy Romances*

Political Stagnation vs. Rapid Industrialization.1882--1905

• Scenes from a Third Class Car. B. S. Borisov and V. A. Kriger (recorded circa 1910)*
• Sarah Bernhardt. M. L. Lentovsky (1891)
• The Queen of Diamonds. V. P. Valentinov (1908-1910)
• Anecdotes (1840-1917)
• Moscow Court Reporting. The Moscow Sheet (Early 1880s)
• The Terrible Wedding Night. Aleksei Pazukhin (1883)
• The Terrible Bandit Churkin (1885)
• Where the Oranges Ripen. N. A. Leikin (1892)
• Mr. Businessmen. I. I. Miasnitsky (1890s)
• The Diary of Maria Bashkirtseva (1889)
• Ivanov Pavel. V. M. Doroshevich (1901)
• Song of the Stormy Petrel. Maxim Gorky (1901)
• Lightfingered Sonya. M. D. Klefortov (1903)
• Revolutionary Songs (Late Nineteenth Century)*

The Eruption of Commercial Culture in the InterrevolutionaryYears. 1906--1917

• Vaudeville Skits (1905-1910)*
• Why Was I Born into this World. Tobolsk Prison Song (1908)*
• The Poor Fellow Died. K[onstantin] R[omanov] (circa 1910)*
• Marusia Poisoned Herself. A New Song From Saratov (1915)*
• Russian Sob Sister. Olga Gridina (1910)
• How the Lasses Burned a Lad in the Stove. Al. Aleksandrovsky (1911)
• The Wrath of God. V. I. Kryzhanovskaia (1909)
• The Little Siberian Girl. Lidiia Charskaia (1910)
• The African Princess (Vampuka). M. N. Volkonsky (1907)
• Gladiators of Our Times. N. N. Breshko-Breshkovsky (1909)
• Sanin. Mikhail Artsybashev (1908)
• The Keys to Happiness. Anastasia Verbitskaia (1913)
• Do You Remember? Petr Chardynin (1915)*
• The Wrath of Dionysus. E. A. Nagrodskaia (1910)
• The Countess-Actress. Count Amori (1916)
• The Bloody Talisman. Nat Pinkerton, King of Detectives (1915)
• The Headlands of Manchuria (1906-1908)*
• The Heroic Exploit of the Don Cossack Kuzma Firsovich Kriuchkov (1914)
• Jackals. Sergei Sokolsky (1916)
• Rasputin's Nighttime Orgies. V. V. Ramazanov (1917)