Mary W. Cavender, Nests of the Gentry: Family, Estate, and Local Loyalties in Provincial Russia. 251 pp. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. ISBN 0874139792. $55.00. John Randolph, The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism. 287 pp. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. ISBN 0801445422. $45.00.