French and Russian in Imperial Russia

Derek Offord is Research Professor in Russian at the University of Bristol. Lara Ryazanova-Clarke is Professor of Russian and Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She works in several fields within Russian language studies: sociocultural linguistics, discourse analysis, metaphorical studies, language policy, and the nexus between language, ideology and identity. Vladislav Rjeoutski is a Research Fellow at the Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau. Gesine Argent is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Bristol.

• Contents; Foreword; Note on dates, transliteration and other editorial practices; Abbreviations; Dates of reigns; INTRODUCTION, Derek Offord, Gesine Argent, Vladislav Rjéoutski and Lara Ryazanova-Clarke; 1: FRENCH AND RUSSIAN IN CATHERINE’S RUSSIA, Derek Offord, Vladislav Rjéoutski and Gesine Argent; 2: THE USE OF FRENCH BY CATHERINE II IN HER LETTERS TO FRIEDRICH MELCHIOR GRIMM (1774–96),Georges Dulac; 3: LANGUAGE USE AMONG THE RUSSIAN ARISTOCRACY: THE CASE OF THE COUNTS STROGANOV, Vladislav Rjéoutski and Vladimir Somov; 4: THE FRANCOPHONE PRESS IN RUSSIA: A CULTURAL BRIDGE AND AN INSTRUMENT OF PROPAGANDA, Vladislav Rjéoutski and Natalia Speranskaya; 5: RUSSIAN NOBLEWOMEN’S FRANCOPHONE TRAVEL NARRATIVES (1777–1848): THE LIMITS OF THE USE OF FRENCH, Emilie Murphy; 6: RUSSIAN OR FRENCH? BILINGUALISM IN ALEKSANDR RADISHCHEV’S LETTERS FROM EXILE (1790–1800), Rodolphe Baudin; 7: CODE-SWITCHING IN THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE VORONTSOV FAMILY, Jessica Tipton; 8: FRENCH AND RUSSIAN IN THE PERSONAL DOCUMENTS OF NIKOLAI KARAMZIN, Liubov Sapchenko; 9: PUSHKIN’S LETTERS IN FRENCH, Nina Dmitrieva; 10: INSTRUCTION IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY COQUETRY: LEARNING ABOUT FASHION AND SPEAKING ITS LANGUAGE, Xénia Borderioux; 11: THE ROLE OF FRENCH IN THE FORMATION OF ARCHITECTURAL TERMINOLOGY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIA, Iuliia and Sergei Klimenko; 12: THE COEXISTENCE OF FRENCH AND RUSSIAN IN RUSSIA IN THE FIRST THIRD OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: BILINGUALISM WITH OR WITHOUT DIGLOSSIA?, Nina Dmitrieva and Gesine Argent; CONCLUSION, Gesine Argent and Vladislav Rjéoutski; Notes on contributors; Index

Making good use of the insights and theories of sociolinguists, and concerned to reconstruct both past usage and past attitudes to language, these collective volumes are a milestone in the development of the social history of language.