domestic space into clinical space and when did family planning practices begin? The authors of the monograph try to answer these questions using a wide range of sources. Referring to case histories, textbooks and atlases on obstetrics, reports from medical institutions, minutes of meetings of charitable societies, divorce cases, diary entries and letters, they reconstruct the development of maternity culture in Russia from Peter I to the October Revolution. Among these sources, the central place is occupied by written testimonies in which women themselves describe and comprehend the childbirth experience. Natalya Mitsyuk, Natalya Pushkareva and Anna Belova are historians and anthropologists, members of the Russian Association of Women's History Researchers (RAIZHI).

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