French and Russian in Imperial Russia

"A comprehensive and original contribution to the multidisciplinary study of language, the two volumes address, from a historical viewpoint, subjects of relevance to sociolinguists (especially bilingualism and multilingualism), social and cultural historians (social and national identity, linguistic and cultural borrowing), Slavists (the relationship of Russian and Western culture) and students of the European Enlightenment, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism and cultural nationalism."