Ekaterina Pravilova Is a Professor of History Specializing in 19Th Century Imperial Russia

Ekaterina Pravilova is a professor of history specializing in 19th century Imperial Russia. A native of St. Petersburg, Professor Pravilova received her Ph.D. from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1997. She was a research scholar at the Academy of Sciences from 1995 to 2004 and an assistant professor of history at the European University at St. Petersburg from 2002 to 2006. She joined the faculty at Princeton in the fall of 2006.

Prof. Pravilova’s first book, Zakonnost’ ipravalichnosti: administrativnaiaiustitsiia v Rossii, vtoraiapolovina 19 veka – Oktiabr’ 1917 (Legality and Individual Rights: Administrative Justice in Russia, second half of the 19th century – October 1917), (Obrazovanie-Kul’tura, St. Petersburg, 2000) the legal regimes of governance in the Russian Empire. In her second book, FinansyImperii: dengiivlast v politikeRossiinanatsionalnykhorkainakh(Finances of Empire: Money and Power in Russia’s National Borderlands), (NovoeIzdatel’stvo, 2006) she analyzes budgetary and monetary relations between Russian imperial core and its borderland regions - Poland, Finland, Turkestan and Transcaucasia.

Pravilova’s third book A Public Empire: Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia (Princeton University Press, 2014) analyzes Russian property regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I and the revolutions of 1917. The book shows the emergence of the new practices of owning "public things" in imperial Russia and the attempts of Russian intellectuals to reconcile the security of property with the ideals of the common good.

Recent Publications

Articles

"The Property of Empire. Islamic Law and Russian Agrarian Policy in Transcaucasia and Turkestan," in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 12, 2 (Spring 2011), 353-86.

Les res publicaerusses.Discourssur la propriétépublique à la fin de l’Empire, in Annales.Histoire, sciences sociales.mai-juin 2009, n° 3, p. 579-609

"River of Empire: Geopolitics, Irrigation, and the Amu Darya in the Late 19th Century" in Cahiers d’Asie Central. 2009, n17-18, p.255-287

"From the Zloty to the Ruble: The Kingdom of Poland in the Monetary Politics of the Russian Empire," in Jane Burbank, Mark von Hagen, AnatolyiRemnev, eds. Russian empire : space, people, power, 1700-1930. (Bloomington : Indiana University Press). 2007. pp.295-319

Books

A Public Empire.Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia (Princeton UP, 2014).

FinansyImperii: Dengiivlast’ v politikeRossiinanatsionalnykhokrainakh [Finances of Empire: Money and Power in Russian policy in the imperial borderlands].(Moscow: “NovoeIzdatel’stvo”, 2006, 450 pp.)

Zakonnost’ ipravalichnosti: administrativnaiaiustitsija v Rossii, vtoraiapolovina 19 veka – Oktiabr’ 1917 [Legality and Individual Rights: Administrative Justice in Russia, second half of the 19th century – October 1917] (St.Petersburg:“Obrazovanie – Kul’tura”, 2000) 300 pp.