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Vol. 12 (2024)

A Meeting at the Duc's: On Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire Studies after 2022

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21900/j.vivliofika.v12.1824
Published
2024-12-27

Abstract

This article examines the stakes of the 2023 renaming of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association to the Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire Studies Association. It argues that this renaming helps us to re-envision the stakes of the field and to conceptualize the Russian Empire as a conceptual space bigger than and not solely connected to modern-day Russia. It does so by looking at the Duc de Richelieu’s role in the history of modern-day Odesa and his reception by Soviet, Ukrainian, and Western scholars, focusing especially on his settler colonial project.

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