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New Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesKelsey Rubin-Detlev, "The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great" (Liverpool UP, 2019)The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great (Liverpool University Press, 2019) is the first scholarly monograph devoted to the comprehensive analysis of the letters of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (r. 1762-1796), as well as the first to examine the conventions of letter-writing by an 18th-century monarch after Louis XIV. Presenting a rich history of Catherine’s personal development as a letter writer in the context of 18th-century elite epistolary practice and drawing on contemporary epistolary theory, Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California) makes a significant contribution to the study of the Ru...2019-11-2058 min
Was there a Russian Enlightenment?The Enlightenment in the Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Friedrich Melchior Grimm5/8. Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (Ertegun House, Oxford) delivers a talk for "Was there a Russian Enlightenment?", a one-day seminar held at Ertegun House, Oxford in November 2012.2012-12-0330 min