Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Essays
  • Literary and Artistic Tastes
  • The Empress as Writer
  • ‘Les Philosophes.’
  • The Literary Scene
  • Crisis Renewed: The Volga Voyage and the Legislative Commission
  • The Spirit of the Nakaz: Catherine II's Literary Debt to Montesquieu
  • An Antidote to Nervous Juice: Catherine the Great's Debate With Chappe d'Auteroche over Russian Culture
  • Proverbs and the Empress: The Role of Russian Proverbs in Catherine the Great's All Sorts and Sundries
  • From Fat Falstaff to Francophile Fop: Russian Nationalism in Catherine the Great's Merry Wives.
• Further Reading