The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova PDF
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GRAD DK r 169 .D3 A233 ' 1995 The Memoir. ref Princess WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION Go gle r1 ER,~ ... TH MEMOIRS OF PRIN E DA HK VA . . .. .. . .. The Memoirs ef Princess] Jashkova , RA LA , D A D DJ D BY YRIL FlTZLYON !NTRODUCT IO BY JEHAN M GHEliH A - R WORD BY A. W RO ZO F-DA HKOFF 1 DUKE UNIVERSITY PRE rham. and London 1995 ,,s F t ptiblisbt-idn byJ ohn~ (Pwliahers) 11). CcipyrigCht J ohn (Publishrn> LID. ~~ by pamiaiotl ol Publations n.· ~lion ~ht 1m ~ Uni,'<' ·t · Pn.-u. lrigho 'Cd ur Printed in~ United ~ AtnC!ricaO i'I adc,Urtt ~ GO ~ in Pnpma byT Wormation ·y,taN, Inc, Ubnry of CongmisC atalogl. ~in-Pubtiation 1t1 ~ppc'U on tht J.ut printed ~ of this book. ... CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONSY U PREFACEI x INTRODUCTION} lflanr M Gliill'd • THE MEMOIRS2 9 SELECTEDB IBLIOGRAPHYt9 1 INDEX AND BIOGRAPHICALT ABLEO F REFERENCES2 97 ... LLU RATl N Direaor of tk Aademy ii The Vcm>naofv ily 21 R.:ipnm2s8 Prine~ MikhaiDl ashkov '9· ,o Prince Grigorii Orlov 00 .A nnaV oront,on t.02 1-""- in Her Own Handwriting 192 C..therine II u Prin«u Dashkovai n Old Age 222 ... PRE , ACE Wt.t.n I sat down to writ~ the in.troduction to Duhkcwa' Memoin, I hada JJIOfflftit of crisis: Why. I wondcttd, had I decided that it would be a good dca to rcb&uet he memoir$o f an eighteenth-century Russian princ ? Who would be int rested in her and what -•-V!ano r1.. could powi )yh i for reackn of Englishi n the te tieth ntury? Dash kma's times and her reministt~ which I had foond so compelling when l 1nitia.tcd the project, suddenly stttncd very fu ttm0vcd from tht rw' . livcs of ~t twcn . th, tury IWICKpni.r tly. I now ~USC it had n bnost i · r in I had ad the Mffll!Oln. As I ~ the work, I found myself once ~ in totally abso~ b the figure of Ouhkova,a strong; outspoken, atttmdy intelligent.s ome times annoyinglys clf-nghtco\15c, ouragw:ouws oman. At least that's •my" Ouhkova~ the •JmgC I when I r h /tkmon . I wi$h I could know what your mwgies of ~ T after readingth e Memoi,r sI am very urious bout bowp eople rca to Dashkova• ·tan.g tucknts in my c~ ~-c had "tty .st~ r-Npome! to Dasbton' Mtmoirs: some have bttn fascinated, rmny haYCfo und her self-righteous, ot M ound her inte ·~for what ~W.\ about the liv o wo:meni n eight th entury R ia. ' se tudents inft needm yv · on ~hkova a grttt deal and. manyo f my commt'n responses to questions th~ raised in class ~bout tht-prmoesa.1n d ·the role .of women in eighteenth-century Rusm. For 'PlT insightfulc ommentsan d thoughtful and thought~pTOYOkirratgd ing and rupocua, my th.mksg o to: h.'-y dd. Sara n Bergh& • San Bostia~ lsea , Ju·l Fishman, JayF orttst JulieF reeman, Kate Horst Laura L<ttch,~ ff John son, Kay Sinncma,M ee At!S ongl.a ura w~tbcrly, and uura Wh t~.
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