University Press, 1991); Andreas Schönle,“Garden of the Empire: Catherine’s Appro-
priation of the Crimea,”Slavic Review60 (2001): 1–23.
On landlords and serfs, see Priscilla Roosevelt,Life on the Russian Country Estate: A Social
and Cultural History(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995); Douglas Smith,The
Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great’s Russia(New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2008).
On education: Jan Kusber,“Individual, Subject, and Empire: Toward a Discourse on
Upbringing, Education, and Schooling in the Time of Catherine II,”Ab Imperio 2
(2008): 125–56; Anna Kuxhausen,From the Womb to the Body Politic: Raising the Nation
in Enlightenment Russia(Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013). J. L. Black
includes a translation of the handbook for Catherinian school reforms,“The Duties of
Man and Citizen,”inCitizens for the Fatherland: Education, Educators, and Pedagogical
Ideals in Eighteenth Century Russia(Boulder, Colo.: East European Quarterly, 1979).
Catriona Kelly explores etiquette literature:Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite
Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin(Oxford and New York: Oxford University
Press, 2001), chap. 1.
On institutions of sociability and public discourse: Douglas Smith,Working the Rough
Stone: Freemasonry and Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia(DeKalb, Ill.: Northern
Illinois University Press, 1999); Raffaella Faggionato, A Rosicrucian Utopia in
Eighteenth-Century Russia: The Masonic Circle of N. I. Novikov(Dordrecht: Springer,
2005); Colum Leckey,Patrons of Enlightenment: The Free Economic Society in Eighteenth-
Century Russia(Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 2011). On printing and
intellectual life: Gary Marker,Publishing, Printing, and the Origins of Intellectual Life in
Russia, 1700– 1800 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985); Simon Franklin,
“Mapping the Graphosphere: Cultures of Writing in Early 19th-Century Russia (and
Before),”Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History12 (2011): 531–60.
Literary works of Catherine’s time include M. M. Shcherbatov,On the Corruption of Morals
in Russia, ed. and trans. A. Lentin (London: Cambridge University Press, 1969);
Alexander Radishchev,A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, trans. Leo Weiner, ed.
Roderick Page Thaler (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966);Two Com-
edies by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia: Oh, These Times! And The Siberian
Shaman, ed. and trans. Lurana Donnels O’Malley (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic
Publishers, 1998);Dramatic Works of D. I. Fonvizin, ed. and trans. Marvin Kantor (Bern:
H. Lang, 1974). Memoirs by late eighteenth-century Russian nobles:The Memoirs of
Princess Dashkova, ed. Kyril FitzLyon and Jehanne M. Gheith (Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 1995); Gary Marker and Rachel May, ed. and trans.,Days of a Russian
Noblewoman: The Memories of Anna Labzina, 1758– 1821 (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois
University Press, 2001);Nikolai Karamzin, Letters of a Russian Traveller, ed. and trans.
Andrew Kahn (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2003).
On eighteenth-century Russian literature: Irina Reyfman,Vasilii Trediakovsky: The Fool of
the“New”Russian Literature(Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990); Amanda
Ewington,A Voltaire for Russia: A.P. Sumarokov’s Journey from Poet-Critic to Russian
Philosophe(Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2010); V. Iu. Proskurina,
Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II(Boston: Academic
Studies Press, 2011); Luba Golburt,The First Epoch: The Eighteenth Century and the
Russian Cultural Imagination(Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2014).
Surveys include Andrew Baruch Wachtel and Ilya Vinitsky,Russian Literature(Cam-
bridge: Polity, 2009) andCambridge History of Russian Literature, rev. edn. (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Pess, 1992).
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