Freemasonry and Power: The Paradoxes of Petersburg -- Utopia and Reform in Moscow: N. I. Novikov’s Circle -- Russian Rosicrucianism, between East and West -- The Rosicrucians and Authority: An Alliance of the Throne and the Altar.The author undertakes an investigation into the history of Russian Freemasonry that has not been attempted previously. Her premise is that the Russian Enlightenment …