Empress Elizabeth: Her Reign and Her Russia, 1741-1761.

Two very welcome translations of Russian works on the reign of Empress Elizabeth (ruled 1741-61) have recently appeared. John T. Alexander has edited and translated Evgeny V Anisimov's Empress Elizabeth. Her Reign and Her Russia, 1741-1761 (Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International P., 1995; pp. xvi + 276. N.p.). Anisimov is one of the most prominent representatives of a very vigorous school of eighteenth-century scholars which has emerged in recent years in Russia, originally stimulated by the glasnost and perestroika of the Gorbachev era. Anisimov not only gave attention to …