Patrons of enlightenment : the Free Economic Society in eighteenth-century Russia /
This book is the first full-length study in English on the St. Petersburg Free Economic Society, Imperial Russia's most prestigious non-governmental association. It examines the Society from a wide variety of perspectives of the men and women who took part in its work-the St. Petersburg aristoc...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Newark :
University of Delaware Press,
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Foundations and façades
- "The decay of agriculture"
- Patrons and the peasant question
- Voice from the provinces
- "Not only to be read, but fulfilled."