The Influence of French on Eighteenth-Century Literary Russian

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Focusing on the influence of French language on Russian during the eighteenth century, the book analyzes numerous examples of Gallicisms found in literature, translations, and correspondence from the 1730s to the century's end. It highlights the prevalence of semantic and phraseological calques across different literary registers, including prose and poetry. The author concludes that the extensive French influence significantly enriched the development of the Russian literary language during this era.