In this newly translated excerpt from his magisterial five-volume
Course Kliuchevsky (1841-1911) provides a colorful description of
Russian court life in the eighteenth century, a dramatic narrative
of the coup d'etat that brought Catherine II to power, a portrait
of the empress herself, and an analysis of her foreign conquests
and her major internal initiatives. While Kliuchevsky is critical
of Catherine, he draws upon her memoirs and other writings and the
accounts of her contemporaries to achieve a well-rounded and deeply
human analysis of her character and personality. It is an
extraordinary act of historical re-creation of the sort that
brought Kliuchevsky such renown in his own time, and it remains so
life-like that it fairly leaps off the page.
Kliuchevsky's examination of Western influence in Catherine's
reign leads him to questions that were of urgent significance for
Russia's development in his own day, and have remained so ever
since: how to use Western ideas and practices to improve and enrich
Russian life, without turning them into idle fashions or political
bludgeons, and where to find the social leadership capable of
performing such a delicate task.
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