Information about ex. editor:
Alexander D. Ivinsky
Alexander D. Ivinsky, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9007-3996
Е-mail:
Abstract:
This collective work examines the work of Catherine II and the influence of her cultural policy on her contemporaries — G.R. Derzhavin, D.I. Fonvizin, M.N. Muravyov, N.M. Karamzin, A.N. Radishchev, etc. The participants of the project critically analyzed a number of historical and literary myths and proposed new interpretations of both well-known works and those texts that did not attract the proper attention of researchers. In addition, this collective work presents dozens of unknown documents scattered through the archives of Moscow and St. Petersburg (special attention is paid to the epistolary heritage of the writers). Well-known Russian and foreign scholars contributed to this book.
Keywords: history of Russian literature of the 18th century, Catherine II, G.R. Derzhavin, D.I. Fonvizin, M.N. Muravyov, N.M. Karamzin, A.N. Radishchev.
CONTENTS
From the editor
Mark G. Altshuller. Catherine II as Felitsa
Evgeniy V. Pchelov. Iconographic Symbols of Catherine II in the Poetry of Her Era
Marcus Levitt. On the Origins of Russian Intelligentsia: Catherine II, Novikov and Radishchev
Vitaliy I. Simankov. Reflections on the Literary Sources of “Kallisfen” (“Callisthenes”), a Novella by D.I. Fonvizin
Aleksey N. Pashkurov. “The Queen of Souls…”: The Myth of Catherine the Great in M.N. Muravyov’s Worldview and Poetry
Alexey I. Lyubzhin, Marina V. Lenchinenko. Under the Wings of the Mantuan Swan: M.N. Muravyov as a Reader of Virgil
Alexander D. Ivinskiy. Mikhail Muravyov in Letters to His Father and Sister from 1778–1779
Liubov A. Sapchenko. Catherine the Great in the Assessments of N.M. Karamzin
Emmanuel Waegemans. Proverbs of Catherine II as a Weapon in the Literary and Political Struggle for a New Man
Elena Ye. Prikazchikova. Catherine II and Her Epoch: Between Freemasonry and Voltairianism
Angelina Vacheva. “Tout ce que les Francois disent n’est pas mot d’evangile…”. The Image of France in the Correspondence of Valentin Jameray-Duval and Anastasia Sokolova
Maria S. Berlova.Theatricality of Catherine II’s Comedies Against Freemasonry
Tatiana I. Akimova. Gallant Dialogue as an Author’s Strategy in the Literary Work of Catherine II
Mikhail A. Kiselev. The Professional Official as an Amateur Writer: D.V. Volkov’s Literary Experiments
Mikhail Yu. Osokin.Overwhelmed by Grief: Sergey Volchkov and Mikhail Verevkin, Two Translators under Catherine II
