Christopher ElyChristopher Ely is Professor of History at the Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University, USA. He is the author of This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia (2002) and Underground Petersburg: Rdical Populism, Urban Space and the Tactics of Subversion in Reform-Era Russia (2016). He is also the co-editor, along with Mark Bassin, of Space, Place and Power in Modern Russia: Essays in the New Spatial History (2010). Read More Read Less