Russia in the Age of the Enlightenment : Essays for Isabel De Madariaga

In the 18th century, Peter the Great created the Russian Empire and brought it into the European community. These 11 essays explore such aspects of the period as international relations, legal theory, peasants, language, social thought, and the female rule of Catherine the Great. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-6 Russia as a European Great Power....Pages 7-39 Russian National Consciousness and its Development in the Eighteenth Century....Pages 40-56 The Image of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Author....Pages 57-74 Navigation and the Modernisation of Petrine Russia: Teachers, Textbooks, Terminology....Pages 75-105 Favourites, Favouritism and Female Rule in Russia, 1725–1796....Pages 106-124 F. G. Strube de Piermont and the Origins of Russian Legal History....Pages 125-141 The Question of Serfdom: Catherine II, the Russian Debate and the View from the Baltic Periphery (J. G. Eisen and G. H. Merkel)....Pages 142-166 Philanthropy in the Reign of Catherine the Great: Aims and Realities....Pages 167-202 Catherine the Great: Views from the Distaff Side....Pages 203-221 The Secret Committee on the Old Believers: Moving away from Catherine II’s Policy of Religious Toleration....Pages 222-241 Back Matter....Pages 242-253 This volume of essays by colleagues, friends and former students commemorates the contribution of Professor Isabel de Madariaga to modern scholarship on the history of Russia.