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The muscovian letters of Francesco Locatelli (1735), or the illusory modernisation of Russia's legal and political system during the reign of Peter The Great and his successors
Abstract
In the 18 th century thinkers of the French Enlightenment discover Russia, whose institutional reforms replace their traditional utopian topies. The myths of Peter the Great and of Catherine II as Minerva of the North are created Russia also becomes a peculiar laboratory of Enlightenment incarnate. Francesco Locatelli, the author of the Muscovian Letters, who between 1733 and 1735 spend two years in Russian prisons, attempts to deconstruct these myths. His book, which enjoyed an immense popularity in Europe, is an accusation of arbitrariness andinhumanity ofthe Russian regime.
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Marek Mosakowski
- Wydział Filologiczny Instytut Filologii Romańskiej Katedra Literatur Romańskich
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- artykuły w czasopismach recenzowanych i innych wydawnictwach ciągłych
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ROMANICA CRACOVIENSIA
no. 15,
edition 3,
pages 216 - 223,
ISSN: 1732-8705 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Bibliographic description:
- Mosakowski M., Ślęzak J.: The muscovian letters of Francesco Locatelli (1735), or the illusory modernisation of Russia's legal and political system during the reign of Peter The Great and his successors// ROMANICA CRACOVIENSIA. -Vol. 15., iss. 3 (2015), s.216-223
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.4467/2084317rc.15.0154282
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