Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction / Olga Matich -- I. Petersburg, the Novel -- 1. Backs, Suddenlys, and Surveillance / Olga Matich -- 2. Poetics of Disgust: To Eat and Die in Petersburg / Olga Matich -- 3. Bely, Kandinsky, and Avant-Garde Aesthetics / Olga Matich -- II. Petersburg, the City -- 4. "The Streetcar Prattle of Life": Reading and Riding St. Petersburg's Trams / Alyson Tapp -- 5. How Terrorists Learned to Map: Plotting in Petersburg and Boris Savinkov's Recollections of a Terrorist and The Pale Horse / Alexis Peri and Christine Evans -- 6. The Enchanted Masquerade: Alexander Blok's The Puppet Show from the Stage to the Streets / Cameron Wiggins -- 7. Panoramas from Above and Street from Below: The Petersburg of Vyacheslav Ivanov and Mikhail Kuzmin / Ulla Hakanen -- 8. The Button and the Barricade: Bridges in Paris and Petersburg / Lucas Stratton -- 9. 28 Nevsky Prospect: The Sewing Machine, the Seamstress, and Narrative / Olga Matich -- 10. Meat in Russia's Modernist Imagination / Mieka Erley -- 11. The Fluid Margins: Flâneurs of the Karpovka River / Polina Barskova -- 12. The Voices of Silence: The Death and Funeral of Alexander Blok / Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock -- Concluding Remarks / Olga Matich -- Postscript. St. Petersburg: New Architecture and Old Mythology / Gregory Kaganov -- Contributors -- Index.