G.-F. Müller and the Imperial Russian Academy

McGill-Queen's University Press

1986

290 p.

0773505539

I. Present at the creation -- 1. Leipzig and the founding of the Russian Academy 1705-31 -- 2. Fledgling historican at the Academy 1731-3 -- II. Charting Siberia -- 3. A land and its past 1733-43 -- III. Stormy decades at the Academy -- 4. Historiographer 1743-8 -- 5. Debate on "Russian" origins 1749-55 -- 6. Monthly compositions 1755-64 -- IV. Calm and creativity in Moscow -- 7. Educator and Academy deputy 1765-8 -- 9. Archivist, historian, publicist 1769-83 -- Epilogue: Müller and Russian historiography.

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