Language and culture in eighteenth-century Russia

This is one of the most important studies ever published on eighteenth-century Russia.

It traces the growth of a vernacular language from the hybrid Slavonic of the late seventeenth century through the debates between archaists and innovators of the early nineteenth century.

Zhivov's study is an essential work on the genesis of modern Russian culture; the aim of this translation is to make it available to historians and students of the field.