Fwd: French in Russia project publication of documents

[Vladislav Rjéoutski]

Dear all,

We are pleased to be able to announce that we have published on the website
of our AHRC-funded project on ‘The History of the French Language in
Russia’ the first batch of twelve pairs of documents (primary source texts
and introductory essays on them) in the corpus we are constructing there.

These documents may be found in the ‘Scholarly resources’ section of the
site at http://frinru.ilrt.bris.ac.uk . Click  on Texts/Introductions in
the navigation pane in the left-hand margin to access these documents.

This first batch contains the following material (in rough chronological
order of the composition of the text in question, from the 1710s to the
1860s):

   - Teaching and learning French in the early eighteenth century: Ivan
   Shcherbatov’s letters to his French teacher
   - French in Russian diplomacy: Antiokh Kantemir’s address to King George
   II and his diplomatic and other correspondence
   - French in public education in eighteenth-century Russia: the case of
   the Cadet Corps
   - Translation and propaganda in the mid-eighteenth century: French
   versions of Sumarokov’s tragedy *Sinav and Truvor*
   - French in the education of the nobility: Mikhail Shcherbatov’s letters
   to his son Dmitrii
   - Noble sociability in French: romances in Princess Natalia Kurakina’s
   album
   - Family correspondence in the Russian nobility: letters from Georges
   and Alexandre Meyendorff to their mother (1815-18)
   - Foreign languages and noble sociability: documents from Russian
   Masonic lodges
   - French in the nineteenth-century Russian salon: Fiodor Rostopchin’s
   ‘memoirs’
   - Ego-writing in French: the diary of Anastasiia Iakushkina
   - Family correspondence in the Russian nobility: a letter of 1847 from
   Valerii Levashov to his cousin, Ivan D. Iakushkin
   - Xenophobia in French: Count Andrei Rostopchin’s reflections in the
   catalogue of his library

We aim to publish at least three further batches of such material at
roughly six-monthly intervals during the lifetime of the project, up until
autumn 2014.

With all best wishes,

Gesine Argent, Derek Offord and Vladislav Rjéoutski

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