Alexeï Evstratov, Les Spectacles francophones à la cour de Russie (1743‐1796), L’invention d’une société

Although rich in cultural creativity and intellectual achievement, the Russian Enlightenment does not always receive the attention it deserves from historians of Europe. Early in Russia’s eighteenth century, the religious traditions and political arrangements of Muscovy intersected with the reforms and resource mobilization of Tsar Peter I to propel an accelerated process of cultural innovation that by the 1750s produced a self‐consciously Europeanized court and nobility. Historians have docu

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