ECRESA panel at ASEEES - The Power of Memory in Late Eighteenth-Century Russian Literary Culture, Sat Nov 22 2025, 10:00 to 11:45am

Book Review - Ekaterina Heath - Peter I in Kolomenskoe
Review of: S. I. Baranova, L. A. Beliaev, A. V. Topychkanov, Rezidentsiia Petra I v Kolomenskom: kompleksnoe istoriko-arkheologicheskoe issledovanie. Moscow: Indrik, 2022.
Link to open access - iopn.library.illinois.edu/.../article/...

1/2 Upcoming workshop - Imperial Hostages (Amanaty)
Exploring Imperial Governance and Subordination in the Eurasian Space 27. – 28. November 2025. Draft program - www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/c... .

Book review - Ludwig Steindorff - A Foreign Servant of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich: Personal Experience and Collected Knowledge of an Interpreter
Link to Open Access - iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/viv...

1/2 Book review - Sabine Dumschat, A New Source on the History of Russia – the Diary of Christoph Bousch, Vivliofika vol. 12 (2024): 108-111
Link to open access - doi.org/10.21900/j.v...

1/3 Announcement - Winner of the 2025 Marc Raeff Book Prize
Plath, Tilman. Peters “unsichtbare Hand”? Außenhandelspolitik und ökonomisches Denken im Russland des 18. Jahrhunderts. Quellen und Studien zur Baltischen Geschichte (Köln, Böhlau, 2025).

Book Review - Françoise Hildesheimer - A la découverte du monde des diaks et des podiatchis
Link to Open Access -https://doi.org/10.21900/j.vivliofika.v12.1833
Review of: Anna Joukovskaia, L’État quotidien: administrer la Russie au XVIIIe siècle

CFP - Annual Meeting of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, 7-9 January 2026. Please contact Dr Paul Keenan for more details.

CFP - The Imperial Dimension of Catherine II’s Legislative Commission (1767-1768)
March 12-13, 2025 in Münster
Please send an abstract (no more than one page) and a short CV to Elena
Marasinova (lenamarassinova@gmail.com) and Ricarda Vulpius(ricarda.vulpius@unimuenster.de) by October 31, 2025

Book Review - E. P. Grechanaia - A New Edition of Voyage to the Island of of Love, Vivliofika v.12
Link to open access: doi.org/10.21900/j.v...

Book review - Clare Griffin - Kuranty and Cross-Cultural Communication, Vivliofika Vol. 12 (2024)
Review of: Daniel C. Waugh and Ingrid Maier, Cross- Cultural Communication in Early Modern Russia: Foreign News in Context. doi. org/10.6069/XCSQ-BF71
Link to Open access - doi.org/10.21900/j.v...

1/3 Article in Focus - George E. Munro - Potemkin’s Brilliants: A Note on Russia’s Role in the Early Modern Diamond Trade - Vivliofika Vol. 12 (2024)

1/2 Article in Focus - Volodymyr Sklokin -On the Uses of Decolonial History for Life , Vivliofika Vol. 12 (2024)
Link to Open Access - doi.org/10.21900/j.v...

1/2 Article in Focus: Gregory Afingenov - A Meeting at the Duc's: On Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire Studies after 2022, Vivliofika 2025
Link to Open Access - doi.org/10.21900/j.v...

In a new essay for Vivliofika, Gary Marker reflects on the field of eighteenth-century Russian studies in light of current debates about empire, naming, and decolonization. Open access link - doi.org/10.21900/j.v...

Open Access Article in Focus - Marie-Thérèse von Streng - “C’est le paÿs où je réussirai le mieux, & peut être le seul où je pourroi réussir tout à fait": James Galiffe, banquier genevois dans l’Empire russe, entre carrière commerciale et subjectivité patricienne.