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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 t...
This book brings information on Slavic collections in public, governmental, special, and university libraries up-to-date.
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This text draws together separate areas of Debussy research into perspective to reveal the significance of the composer's music and thought in relation to the broader cultural, intellectual, and artistic issues of the 20th century.