2. 'Friends of My Soul': Radishchev on Friendship and Immortality
Myles Garbarini (Columbia U)
3. Death and the Afterlife in Derzhavin, Karamzin and Radishchev
Andrew Kahn (U of Oxford (UK))

Organizer: Irina Reyfman (Columbia U) ir2@columbia.edu
1. Remembering, Removing, Remaking: Biblical Memory in Radishchev and Masonic Writings
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (U of Southern California)

2/2 Please contact Prof. Dr. Ricarda Vulpius ricarda.vulpius@uni-muenster.de for information on how to attend this workshop online.

2/2 This volume, part of the Higher School of Economics’ Rossica inedita (Novye istochniki po istorii Rossii) series, presents the first scholarly edition of a secret diary, written in German by a translator at the Muscovite Ambassadorial Chancery.

3/3 By examining the measures taken by the tsarist government in its trade policy and comparing them with its objectives, focusing on successes and failures over a moyenne durée, the author arrives at fundamental insights into opportunities and failures of Russian economic policy

2/3 Plath's book is a groundbreaking study of the economic history of the tsarist empire in the 18th century, linking, for the first time, the history of economic thought in Russia with the history of foreign trade policy from Peter I to Catherine II.

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Prince Grigorii Aleksandrovich Potemkin’s love of diamonds is well established. This article discusses several episodes in his life involving those gems, exploring their sources from discovery in the earth (India and Brazil) to their coming into the prince’s possession.

2/3 Link to open access -
doi.org/10.21900/j.v...

2/2 This essay provides arguments in favor of decolonizing the field of Russian and East European Studies, focusing on the eighteenth-century history of Ukrainian-Russian relations.

This article explores the 2023 renaming of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association, arguing that it reframes the field by positioning the Russian Empire as a space broader than, and not confined to, modern-day Russia.