‘Women, Green Spaces and the Politics of Empowerment in Imperial Russia’ draws on the rich historical record of the Russian royal court to demonstrate how green spaces have been used as an instrument of diplomatic and political influence. The book argues that parks like Pavlovsk are a fruitful primary source, which reveals the previously obscured evidence of women’s political activities. In nineteenth-century Russia, green spaces gave women voice and agency, frequently taken away from them by the patriarchal power structures. This book argues for the need to consider consorts in the analysis of political life at the Russian court. Their soft power strategies were deployed through their gardens, the main tool of political propaganda in the long eighteenth century.