French books of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, or “bibliothèque de cabinet” of Regent Anna Leopoldovna?

Speranskaya, Natalia

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French books of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, or “bibliothèque de cabinet” of Regent Anna Leopoldovna?

Author(s)

Speranskaya, Natalia

Issue Date

2019-11

Keyword(s)

Empress Elizabeth Petrovna
Princess Anna von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Regent Anna Leopoldovna
personal library
Jacob von Stählin
Johann Taubert
Antonio Nunes Ribeiro Sanches
Ivan Ivanovitch Shuvalov

Abstract

In 1745, some six hundred volumes of French books were transferred from the Summer Palace, in St. Petersburg, to the Academy of Sciences, and in 1750 returned to the court. Here, we show that three inventories of these books have been preserved to this day, two of which contain an indication that they had belonged to Anna Leopoldovna (in 1740-41, regent during the reign of her underage son, Emperor Ioann Antonovich), and were later donated by Empress Elizabeth Petrovna to Ivan Ivanovitch Shuvalov. Thus, the books described in these catalogs are not the library of Elizabeth Petrovna, as was previously assumed, but that of Anna Leopoldovna.

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ВИВЛIОθИКА: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies, vol. 7

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text

Language

en

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Copyright 2019 Natalia Speranskaya
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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ВИВЛIОθИКА V7 2019 PRIMARY

Volume 7