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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