The Perm Cultural Project [Permskii kul’turnyi proekt]

Scholarship on Russian culture has addressed the multiple ways in which images and stories about well-known cultural figures and places play a vital role in shaping perceptions of Russian cities. Among these people and places, those based in the two Russian capitals are predominant. Dozens of books describe the history of St Petersburg and Moscow as cultural centres (Cliff 2016; Colton 1995; Kelly 2014; Lincoln 2002). The less prominent cities seldom draw the attention of Slavic studies scholars, although some scholarship on them exists (Brower 1990; White 2004).