Ekaterina Pravilova is associate professor of history at Princeton University.

• Acknowledgments vii: Abbreviations xi: Introduction: Res Publica in the Imperial State 1PART I: Whose Nature? Environmentalism, Industrialization, and the Politics of Property 191.: The Meanings of Property 212.: Forests, Minerals, and the Controversy over Property in Post-Emancipation Russia 553.: Nationalizing Rivers, Expropriating Lands 93PART II: The Treasures of the Fatherland 1294.: Inventing National Patrimony 1315.: Private Possessions and National Art 178PART III: "Estates on Parnassus": Literary Property and Cultural Reform 2136.: Writers and the Audience: Legal Provisions and Public Discourse 2157.: The Private Letters of National Literature 241Epilogue 270: Notes 291: Index 403:

"Winner of the 2015 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies"

Ekaterina Pravilova is associate professor of history at Princeton University.

• Acknowledgments vii: Abbreviations xi: Introduction: Res Publica in the Imperial State 1PART I: Whose Nature? Environmentalism, Industrialization, and the Politics of Property 191.: The Meanings of Property 212.: Forests, Minerals, and the Controversy over Property in Post-Emancipation Russia 553.: Nationalizing Rivers, Expropriating Lands 93PART II: The Treasures of the Fatherland 1294.: Inventing National Patrimony 1315.: Private Possessions and National Art 178PART III: "Estates on Parnassus": Literary Property and Cultural Reform 2136.: Writers and the Audience: Legal Provisions and Public Discourse 2157.: The Private Letters of National Literature 241Epilogue 270: Notes 291: Index 403:

"Winner of the 2015 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies"

Ekaterina Pravilova is associate professor of history at Princeton University.

• Acknowledgments vii: Abbreviations xi: Introduction: Res Publica in the Imperial State 1PART I: Whose Nature? Environmentalism, Industrialization, and the Politics of Property 191.: The Meanings of Property 212.: Forests, Minerals, and the Controversy over Property in Post-Emancipation Russia 553.: Nationalizing Rivers, Expropriating Lands 93PART II: The Treasures of the Fatherland 1294.: Inventing National Patrimony 1315.: Private Possessions and National Art 178PART III: "Estates on Parnassus": Literary Property and Cultural Reform 2136.: Writers and the Audience: Legal Provisions and Public Discourse 2157.: The Private Letters of National Literature 241Epilogue 270: Notes 291: Index 403:

"Winner of the 2015 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies"