Anglo-Russian Affinities
2 total works
v. 1
Account of the career of James Walker who worked for eighteen years at the courts of Catherine II, Paul I and Alexander I. The book also restores Walker as the author of anonymously published anecdotes on Russia (1821), which are an important addition to the literature on Catherine's Russia from contemporary English visitors and residents.
v. 2
This volume of selected essays illustrates cultural relations between Great Britain and Russia from the beginning of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century. It covers a wide variety of topics, such as mutual perception and awareness, the creation of images and stereotypes, translations and fictional representations, travel accounts and newspaper reports. Some essays deal with particular areas of British awareness of Russian culture (eg folk song) or of individual writers (such as the fabulist Ivan Krylov); others recount individual British encounters with Russia (eg. George Borrow or the Governess Lucy Atkinson). Taken together, they provide a mosaic of often little-known but fascinating aspects of cultural interchange.