02636nam 2200589Ia 450 991045685590332120200520144314.01-283-17312-397866131731261-61149-343-9(CKB)2550000000041319(EBL)737237(OCoLC)747409497(SSID)ssj0000539928(PQKBManifestationID)12177595(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000539928(PQKBWorkID)10582071(PQKB)10399512(MiAaPQ)EBC737237(Au-PeEL)EBL737237(CaPaEBR)ebr10484199(CaONFJC)MIL317312(EXLCZ)99255000000004131920110407d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPatrons of enlightenment[electronic resource] the Free Economic Society in eighteenth-century Russia /Colum LeckeyNewark University of Delaware Pressc20111 online resource (224 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61149-342-0 Includes bibliographical references.Patrons of Enlightenment; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Foundations and Façades; Chapter Two: "The Decay of Agriculture"; Chapter Three: Patrons and the Peasant Question; Chapter Four: Voices from the Provinces; Chapter Five: "Not Only to Be Read but Fulfilled"; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorThis book is the first full-length study in English on the St. Petersburg Free Economic Society, Imperial Russia's most prestigious non-governmental association. It examines the Society from a wide variety of perspectives of the men and women who took part in its work-the St. Petersburg aristocrats and academics who established it in the 1760's, the budding intelligentsia, Catherine the Great and her court, its correspondents in Western Europe and the Russian provinces, and the wider Russian public.EconomicsRussiaSocieties, etcHistory18th centuryRussiaEconomic policy18th centuryRussiaEconomic conditionsTo 1861Electronic books.EconomicsSocieties, etc.History330.06/04721330.94706Leckey Colum1963-981801MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456855903321Patrons of enlightenment2240722UNINA