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WITH CHARACTERISTIC ENERGY, Dashkova prepared herself for a life allowing her to escape the stifling confinement of her childhood and to live beyond the restrictive possibilities available to most women of the time. Always eager to learn more about other countries, cultures, and forms of government, Dashkova would seek out and question relentlessly the representatives of foreign courts and eminent figures from the world of politics, academia, and the arts. The involvement of the Vorontsov fam...
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A Tumultuous Life: Princess Dashkova and Her Relationships with Others
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; ... informed by sending her the latest publications as well as relevant news from Moscow.22 Overall, Dashkova's relationships with academicians ... Nonetheless, Dashkova later recalled how shaken her daughter was by the news of her exile: "I had great difficulty in trying to revive my ...
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Virtue Must Advertise: Self-Presentation in Princess Dashkova's Memoirs
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova was one of the most colorful and striking figures of the age of Catherine the Great, itself an epoch of oversize personalities. "Catherine the Little," as Dashkova refers to herself in her memoirs, was-next to the empress Catherine-the most prominent and
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The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova: Russia in the Time of Catherine the Great.
The Women's Review of Books
; ... and more than I ever wanted to know about the lives of the previous century's European rich and famous. Yet beyond the society news lies a deeper story of the struggles for self-expression and self-development of a young woman on the edge of emancipation, playing ...
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I Am the Most Interesting Book of All: The Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff, vol.1.
The Women's Review of Books
; ... and more than I ever wanted to know about the lives of the previous century's European rich and famous. Yet beyond the society news lies a deeper story of the struggles for self-expression and self-development of a young woman on the edge of emancipation, playing ...
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On the edge of emancipation. (books on women of the Russian elite)
The Women's Review of Books
; ... and more than I ever wanted to know about the lives of the previous century's European rich and famous. Yet beyond the society news lies a deeper story of the struggles for self-expression and self-development of a young woman on the edge of emancipation, playing ...
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"A Red Hot English Woman": Princess Dashkova's Love Affair with Britain
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; By the time Catherine II became empress of Russia in 1762, Anglomania had touched most of Europe and would gather momentum in the decades that followed. In 1758, toward the end of Empress Elizabeth's reign, an operatic version of Carlo Goldoni's play La Ritornata di Londra, in which the vogue for
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Arduous and Delicate Task: Princess Dashkova, the Academy of Sciences, and the Taming of Natural Philosophy
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova has been a woman more often recalled than remembered. Born in St. Petersburg in the uncertain years that followed in the wake of the tumultuous reign of Peter the Great, Dashkova proved in the second half of the century to be an exceptional personage in an age
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Portraits of Princess Dashkova
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; Although Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova lived in the eighteenth century, she was the very epitome of a modern-day woman-a manager, publisher, and businesswoman. Because of her bold personality and unusual accomplishments, especially in science and education, she fascinated many of her
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Liberty Postponed: Princess Dashkova and the Defense of Serfdom
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; For all the diversity that distinguished imperial Russia from the American colonies in the eighteenth century, both societies shared one crucial characteristic that set them apart from Western Europe: the presence of human bondage as a mainstay of economic power and social privilege. Since 1721,
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Catherine the great--enlightened empress? Simon Henderson places a key figure into the context of modern Russian history.(Profiles in Power)
History Review
; Isabel de Madariaga, Catherine's greatest biographer, has written, 'Since I first took Catherine seriously as a ruler, some forty years ago, I have grown to like her very much.' Yet many historians have not allowed the Empress to grow on them. She has elicited strong and passionate condemnation. It
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