ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the experience of the cholera epidemic in Moscow in 1892–93. For a historian of cholera, Moscow perhaps does not present the most striking case of the epidemic. The chapter looks at cholera outbreak of 1892–93 from the angle of urban history. The Moscow epidemic of 1892–93 can also be explored through the lens of local politics, as it marked a new stage in the involvement of the imperial administration in urban health policy. The presidency of the mayor and the prevalence of municipal physicians among the participants of the conference may speak for the influence and authority of the municipality in matters of public health. From the biological point of view, cholera is an equal-opportunity disease that affects both men and women. During the cholera outbreak of 1892 about 300 cases of disease came from such doss-houses. The cholera epidemic of 1892 caught Moscow in middle of the process of active urban renewal and health reforms.
