Nikolay Novikov
Enlightener of Russia
Part of Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
- Author: W. Gareth Jones
- Date Published: May 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521111447
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Nikolay Novikov (1744–1818) was a key figure in Russian cultural life under Catherine the Great. He was in turn a successful journalist, historiographer, educator, publisher, leading freemason and philanthropist and he left his distinctive mark on each of these spheres at a formative moment in Russia. This book is a Western study of Novikov's complete career and it shows how he responded to Catherine's enlightened despotism in cultural matters and why their ways eventually parted. Novikov is viewed here not only as a founding father of the Russian intelligentsia, but as a representative of the general European Enlightenment, who discovered and encouraged a new generation of writers. A knowledge of Novikov and the kind of enlightenment he strove to spread in Russia is important for an understanding of the particular cast of mind evident in Russian thought and writings in the nineteenth century. The book will therefore be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students of Russian literature and intellectual history.
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- Date Published: May 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521111447
- length: 284 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.57kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
1. Noble beginnings (1744–69)
2. A family of satirical weeklies (1769–73)
3. The Drone (1769–70)
4. Imperial patronage (1770–3)
5. In search of the Russian reader (1773–5)
6. Disillusions and doubts (1774)
7. The historian (1773–91)
8. The freemason (1775–80)
9. A move to Moscow (1779–83)
10. The Russian reader discovered (1779–82)
11. The Typographical Company (1784–91)
12. Martyrdom and meditation (1791–1818)
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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