Roger Bartlett, Gabriela Lehmann-Carli (Eds.)

Eighteenth-Century ussia: Society, Culture, Economy

Papers from the VII International Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia,

Wittenberg 2004

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Table of Contents

Introduction IX

Photograph XI

Literature, Theatre, Censorship

MARK ALTSHULLER

Peterburg glazami odopistsev XVIII veka 3

CHARLES DRAGE

Asclepiads and Archilochians in Eighteenth-Century Russian Poetry 17

KTRILL OSPOVAT

Sumarokov ­ literator v sotsial'nom kontekste 1740 - nachala

1760-kh gg 35

MARCUS C. LEVITT

The Barbarians Among Us, or Sumarokov's Views on Orthography 53

WENDY ROSSLYN

The Prehistory of Russian Actresses: Women on Stage in Russia

(1704-1757) 69

W. GARETH JONES

Who were the Eccentrics of Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature? 83

LURANA DONNELS O'MALLEY

Catherine the Great's 'Rage aux Proverbes' 91

MARIA CHIARA PESENTI

Allegorizm i didaktizm v teatre i v narodnoi kartinke 103

GIOVANNA MORACCI

Performing History Catherine II's Historical Dramas 121

SILKE BROHM

Teatr i tsenzura vo vtoroi polovine XVIII veka 131

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GALfNA A KOSMOLlNSKAIA

Tsenzura v Moskovskom Universitete XVIII veka

(' donovikovski i' period) 139

OL'GA ALEKSANDROYNA TSAPlNA

Voiny za Prosveshchenie? Moskovskii universitet i dukhovnaia tsenzura

v kontse 50-kh - nachale 70-kh gg. XVIII v. 157

ALESSANDRA TOSI

Savilii Fon Ferel'ts's Political Travelogue Puteshestvie kritiki 173

ldeas, Discourse, Cultural Transfer

MARlA CHRlSTfNA BRAGONE

De civilitate morum puerilium Erazma Rotterdamskogo v Rossii

(konets XVII - pervaia polovina XVIII veka) 191

GARYMARKER

Godly and Pagan Women In the Coronation Sermon of 1724 207

STEFAN REICHELT

Retseptsiia tvorchestva Ioanna Arndta v Rossii 221

NATAL'IA DMITRJEYNA KOCHETKOVA

Pietizm i russkoe masonstvo 229

MICHAEL SCHlPPAN

Retseptsiia protestantskikh avtorov v Rossii v XVIII veke

(Spalding, Crugot, Stender) 237

VlKTOR ZHIVOV

'Vsiakaia vsiachina' i sozdanie Ekaterininskogo politicheskogo diskursa 251

ANTONY LENTIN

'Rubbishing' a historian's reputation: Catherine II, the battle of

the books, querelIes d'ou/re-tombe, and Shcherbatov's His/ory ofRussia 267

INGRJD SCHIERLE

'For the Beneflt and Glory of the Fatherland': The Concept of Otechestvo 283

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khovnaia tsenzura 157

~ kri/iki 173

~o v Rossii 191

)f 1724 207

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licheskogo diskursa 251

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,s His/ory 0/Russia 267

oncept of O/echestvo 283

IRlNAKULAKOVA

Natsional'nala model' rossiiskogo universiteta v XVIII v . korporativnost' 297

LINDSEY HUGHES

Seeing the Sights in Eighteenth-Century Russia: the Moscow Kremlin 315

MARlA LUISA DODERO

Na granitse imperii: usad'ba Monrepo 333

GITTA HAMMARBERG

Spas in spe: Castalian Springs, Muses and Muzhiks in Lipetsk 341

ANDREAS RENNER

The Concept of the Scientific Revolution and the History of Science

in Russia 357

Society, Individua/s, Economy

EUSE KIMERLING WIRTSCHAFTER

AState in Search of a People The Problem of Ci vii Society m

Imperial Russia 373

NANCY S KOLLMAN

Change and Continuity in the Law under Peter I 383

OL'GA KOSHELEVA

Children in Petrine St Petersburg 393

MAIA LAVRlNOVICH

Stolichnye nlshchie i formy sotsial'nogo kontrol'ia v Rossii XVIII veka 403

DAVID L. RANSEL

Russian Merchants Citizenship and Identity 417

ALEXANDER M. MARTIN

Down and Out in 1812: The Impact of the Napoleonic Invasion on

Moscow's Middling Strata 429

ANTHONY CROSS

Publish and Perish: The Melancholy Fate ofNikolai Struiskii 445

VII

JOHN T ALEXANDER

Adventures of a Russian-American Citizen of the Universe:

FedorVasil'evich Karzhavin (1745-1812) 459

DAVID GRIFFJTHS

The 'Other' Emin 473

JANET HARTI.EY

War and the Merchants: The Great Northern War (1700-21) 485

EUSABETH HARDER-GERSDORFF (t) Western Trade and Merchant Banking 10 Eighteenth-Century Riga 499

GEORGE E. MUNRO

Glimpses into the Lives of the Merchants of laroslavl' in the

Eighteenth Century 507

ROBERT E. JONES

Merchant Bankruptcy and the Courts, 1649-1800 521

SERGEI A KOZLOV

Nalogi i voiny ekaterininskoi epokhi 531

Abbreviations 541

Notes on Contributors 545

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