A Smolny Album

Dr. Nancy Kovaleff Baker has taught music history at Columbia and Yale Universities, and has been an administrator at Yale, Princeton, Brown, and Boston Universities. She has published translations, with commentary, of an eighteenth-century German theoretical music treatise, coedited a Festschrift, and written a number of articles. The book on the Smolny Institute is her tribute to the Russian side of her family.

Russian historian Alexander Liarsky has published on the history and anthropology of education, the history of childhood and of everyday life, and the history and anthropology of modernization. He has taught at St. Petersburg University of Management Technologies and Economics, the Interregional Institute of Economics and Law, and, currently, is Senior Lecturer at the St. Petersburg State University of Technology and Design.