The Imperial Script of Catherine the Great : : Governing with the Literary Pen / / Vera Proskurina.

Empress Catherine II produced a body of written material so vast and diverse that it seems impossible to provide a general characterization of the works contained in the authoritative twelve-volume collection assembled by A. N. Pypin from handwritten source material. This book does not attempt an al...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Ars Rossica
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Physical Description:1 online resource (220 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Landscape of the Empire: The Antidote of Catherine II, or the Borders of European Civilization
  • 2 Barbaric Capital: Laughter during the Plague
  • 3 The Poetics of Prototypes: Political Contexts of the Fairy Tales of Catherine II
  • 4 Territory of Freedom: Dispute by the Palace Walls
  • 5 “Light from the East”: Catherine II in a Fight against Freemasonry
  • 6 Catherine’s Imperial Stride: The Greek Project on the Theatrical Scene
  • Bibliography
  • Index