Victor Zhivov's Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia is one
of the most important studies ever published on eighteenth-century
Russia. Historians and students of Russian culture agree that the
creation of a Russian literary language was key to the formation of a
modern secular culture, and this title 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.