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SUMMARY:“British Awareness of Russian Culture over Three Centuries: From
  the ‘Discovery’ of Russia to the End of the Crimean War (1553-1856)
 ” with Professor Anthony Cross - Professor Anthony Cross
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CONTACT:Ksenia Afonina
DESCRIPTION:There will be a wine reception after the talk.\n\n*WHEN:* Frid
 ay 3 December\, 19:00 (doors open at 18:30)\n\n*WHERE:* The Auditorium\, F
 itzwilliam College\, Cambridge CB3 0DG\n\nSee the map available "here":htt
 ps://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline-images/College%20map%20
 April%202019%20version.jpg.\n\n*LANGUAGE:* English\n\n*FEE:* CamRuSS membe
 rs – Free\; Non-members – £5\; Children under 16 – Free.\n\nPlease 
 "REGISTER":https://forms.gle/HPgn8rZZeGFMdaQGA no later than 19:00 on Thur
 sday 2 December (24 hours prior to the event).\n\nSee this event on the "C
 amRuSS website":http://www.camruss.com/en/events/british-awareness-of-russ
 ian-culture-over-three-centuries-from-the-discovery-of-russia-to-the-end-o
 f-the-crimean-war-1553-1856-with-professor-anthony-cross/.\n\n*About the s
 peaker*\n\nAnthony Cross was a Professor of Slavonic Studies at the Univer
 sity of Cambridge for 19 years and retired in 2004. He was previously Lect
 urer\, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Russian at the University of East Ang
 lia 1964-1981 and subsequently Roberts Professor of Russian at the Univers
 ity of Leeds 1981-1985.\n\nHe was elected to the British Academy in 1989 a
 nd to the Russian Academy of Humanities in 1996. He received an Honorary D
 octorate from the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy o
 f Sciences (Pushkin House) in 2010. Internationally known for his work on 
 eighteenth-century Russia and Anglo-Russian cultural relations\, he founde
 d the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia in 1968 and edited the Grou
 p’s annual Newsletter from 1973 to 2009. Professor Cross has written and
  edited some twenty-five books and has published over four hundred article
 s\, notes and reviews. Among his principal publications are: _N. M. Karamz
 in: A Study of His Literary Career 1783-1801_ (1971)\; _By the Banks of th
 e Thames: Russians in Eighteenth-Century Britain_ (1980) (Russian translat
 ion 2006)\; _The Russian Theme in English Literature from the Sixteenth Ce
 ntury to 1980_ (1985)\; _Anglo-Russica: Aspects of Anglo-Russian Relations
  in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries_ (1993)\; _By the Banks 
 of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eightee
 nth-Century Russia_ (1996) (Russian translation 2005)\; _Peter the Great t
 hrough British Eyes_ (2000) (Russian translation 2013). _By the Banks of t
 he Neva_ was awarded the 1998 Antsiferov Prize for the best work on St Pet
 ersburg published by a foreign author in 1996-1997.\n\nHis most recent boo
 ks are: _A People Passing Rude: British Responses to Russian Culture_ (201
 3) and _In the Lands of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography of English
 -language First-hand Accounts of Russia\, 1613-1917_ (2014)\, both publish
 ed by Open Book Publishers of Cambridge.\n\nProf. Anthony Cross joined the
  Patrons’ Circle of The Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society in August 202
 0.
LOCATION:The Auditorium\, Fitzwilliam College\, Cambridge CB3 0DG
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