Russia’s French Connection: A History of the Lasting French Imprint on Russian Culture
Adam Coker, "Russia’s French Connection: A History of the Lasting French Imprint on Russian Culture "
English | ISBN: 0367819929 | 2020 | 360 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0367819929 | 2020 | 360 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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 that are 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 culture to two major Franco-Russian events: the wave of immigration to Russia following the French Revolution and Russia’s war with Napoleon.
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