Screen LibraryRussia's French connection : a history of the lasting French imprint on Russian culture /
"While it is generally acknowledged that Russia's culture has been influenced by France, the present study goes beyond the Francophile preferences of the noble elite and examines Russian society more broadly, exploring those elements of French cultural influence still relevant today. This...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Routledge studies in cultural history ;
volume 87 |
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| Summary: |
"While it is generally acknowledged that Russia's culture has been influenced by France, the present study goes beyond the Francophile preferences of the noble elite and examines Russian society more broadly, exploring those elements of French cultural influence still relevant today. This is done through an historical analysis of French loanwords in the Russian language from the time of Peter the Great to the present. The result of this lexical analysis and subsequent study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century archival, periodical, and memoir material is to empirically link Russia's present |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780367819927 0367819929 |
| Index Number: | DK32 |
| CLC: |
D751.238-05 K512.03 |
| Call Number: | K512.03/C682 |