This collection is about the social history f the Russian intelligentsia in the late 19th to early 20th centuries and their civil identity in the light of modern theories of identity, citizenship and civil society, as well as the feminist movement. Contents: Civil identity: methodological and historiographical approaches; On the issue of formation civil identity of the Moscow professorship in the late 19th to early 20th centuries; Formation of civil identity of public school teachers; Civil and professional identity of Russian lawyers; Civil practices of Russian writer-modernists; Civil identity of feminists; Paradoxes of Russian modernization and the formation of the civil society in Russia.