title: Introduction
abstract: T he main topic discussed in this book is the relationship between political and literary symbolism during the reign of Catherine II.Much has been written about Catherine's political and social ideas; this work, however, takes a drastically different approach.I intend to examine not the relationship between literary texts and political ideas, but the ways in which literary texts interacted with a kind of political symbolism which manifested itself in various forms of verbal and non-verbal discou
journal: Academic Studies Press eBooks