Introduction
Welcome to the official website of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, an association of academics and scholars whose research interests are related to the Russian empire during the 'long' eighteenth century - that is, from the start of Peter I's reign in 1682 to the death of Alexander I in 1825. The website has a number of functions:
- to provide members with news about meetings, conferences and relevant publications
- to carry information for the wider academic community about the Study Group's activities
- to archive and digitise the contents of the Study Group's Newsletter for wider academic accessibility
As with any website, any contributions, comments or corrections are very welcome - please use the following link, which you will also find at the bottom of a number of pages.
New Book on the Princes Kantemir
A new work on Prince Dmitrii Kantemir and his son Antiokh by Stefan Lemny (head of the history collection at the Bibliothèque nationale de France) has recently been published in French by Éditions Complexe. More details on this book can be found in this .pdf file.
VIII International Conference of the Study Group - Durham 2009
The next international conference will be held at Van Mildert College, University of Durham, in the United Kingdom. The dates for the conference are Saturday 4 July to Thursday 9 July 2009. The local organizer will be Professor Patrick O'Meara, the principal of Van Mildert College.
The theme of the conference will be Russian history and culture during the long eighteenth century (i.e. late c17th - early c19th centuries). A draft version of the conference programme (current, as of 01/06/09) is available through the Conferences section or as a download in either RTF or PDF format.
For more information about the cost of the conference and to register online through the Durham Conference and Tourism Office web-site.
For a virtual tour of Durham Cathedral and Castle, a Unesco World Heritage Site, follow this link.
2010 Meeting of the Study Group
The next UK meeting of the Study Group will take place Monday 4 to Wednesday 6 January 2010 at the High Leigh Conference Centre, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. The format of meetings allows a generous 45-50 minutes per paper, which provides an excellent opportunity for discussion and feedback from an international audience. The languages are English and Russian. Synopses of papers presented will be published in the following volume of the Group's annual Newsletter. We particularly welcome the participation of postgraduate students, for whom there are a limited number of subsidized places available.
The cost for two days' meals and accommodation in a standard room (without bathroom) and conference fee, was £125 in 2009 - please note that prices may have increased in line with inflation. This rate is per person, even for couples sharing a double room. Some rooms with en-suite bathrooms were available at a total cost of £160 per person in 2009. Please contact the organiser as soon as possible after booking if you require an en-suite room.
NB. One-day rates for non-residents are available. The cost for day visitors, from Morning Coffee and including Dinner was £37 per person in 2009.
The High Leigh Conference Centre is easily reached by road (on the A10) or train from London (20 minutes from Liverpool Street Station) or from Stansted Airport. Click here for a map of the area.
Any enquiries about the Hoddesdon meeting should be directed to Erin McBurney.
New Electronic Resource - Pushkin House Online Catalogue
The library of Pushkin House has recently updated its electronic resources, which include a number of very useful publications for c18th Russian studies, including the first twenty-four volumes of its long-standing serial XVIII Vek, its partial dictionary of c18th Russian authors and collections of c18th texts. The main site is located here - any problems with the drop-down menus can be circumnavigated by using the main site index instead.
Publication of Wittenberg International Conference Proceedings
The proceedings for the most recent international conference of the Study Group have now been published. Details are as follows:
Roger Bartlett and Gabriela Lehmann-Carli (eds), Eighteenth-Century
Russia: Society, Culture, Economy. Papers from the VII International
Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, Wittenberg
2004.
LIT-Verlag: Mnster, January 2007. 568pp., 69.90 Euro, hardback.
Series Geschichte: Forschung und Wissenschaft, No. 23. ISBN
978-3-8258-9887-8.
Online
ordering and publisher's catalogue
This volume brings together forty papers from the Study Group's very successful international conference held in Wittenberg in 2004. The contributors include scholars from Russia, Britain, Germany, Italy and the USA: papers are written in English and in Russian. Topics range widely over the life of the Empire and its emerging modern society, institutions and discourses. The volume brings together new research on literature and its social context, on cultural models and reception, on social groups and individuals, on history, law and economy. It offers an exciting interdisciplinary insight into Imperial Russia in the 'long' eighteenth century.
