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CATEGORIES:The Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society (CamRuSS)
SUMMARY:“British Awareness of Russian Culture over Three C
 enturies: From the ‘Discovery’ of Russia to the En
 d of the Crimean War (1553-1856)” with Professor A
 nthony Cross - Professor Anthony Cross
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211203T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211203T203000
UID:TALK165130AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/165130
DESCRIPTION:There will be a wine reception after the talk.\n\n
 *WHEN:* Friday 3 December\, 19:00 (doors open at 1
 8:30)\n\n*WHERE:* The Auditorium\, Fitzwilliam Col
 lege\, Cambridge CB3 0DG\n\nSee the map available 
 "here":https://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/fi
 les/inline-images/College%20map%20April%202019%20v
 ersion.jpg.\n\n*LANGUAGE:* English\n\n*FEE:* CamRu
 SS members – Free\; Non-members – £5\; Children un
 der 16 – Free.\n\nPlease "REGISTER":https://forms.
 gle/HPgn8rZZeGFMdaQGA no later than 19:00 on Thurs
 day 2 December (24 hours prior to the event).\n\nS
 ee this event on the "CamRuSS website":http://www.
 camruss.com/en/events/british-awareness-of-russian
 -culture-over-three-centuries-from-the-discovery-o
 f-russia-to-the-end-of-the-crimean-war-1553-1856-w
 ith-professor-anthony-cross/.\n\n*About the speake
 r*\n\nAnthony Cross was a Professor of Slavonic St
 udies at the University of Cambridge for 19 years 
 and retired in 2004. He was previously Lecturer\, 
 Senior Lecturer and Reader in Russian at the Unive
 rsity of East Anglia 1964-1981 and subsequently Ro
 berts Professor of Russian at the University of Le
 eds 1981-1985.\n\nHe was elected to the British Ac
 ademy in 1989 and to the Russian Academy of Humani
 ties in 1996. He received an Honorary Doctorate fr
 om the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russ
 ian Academy of Sciences (Pushkin House) in 2010. I
 nternationally known for his work on eighteenth-ce
 ntury Russia and Anglo-Russian cultural relations\
 , he founded the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century
  Russia in 1968 and edited the Group’s annual News
 letter from 1973 to 2009. Professor Cross has writ
 ten and edited some twenty-five books and has publ
 ished over four hundred articles\, notes and revie
 ws. Among his principal publications are: _N. M. K
 aramzin: A Study of His Literary Career 1783-1801_
  (1971)\; _By the Banks of the Thames: Russians in
  Eighteenth-Century Britain_ (1980) (Russian trans
 lation 2006)\; _The Russian Theme in English Liter
 ature from the Sixteenth Century to 1980_ (1985)\;
  _Anglo-Russica: Aspects of Anglo-Russian Relation
 s in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
 _ (1993)\; _By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters fro
 m the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteen
 th-Century Russia_ (1996) (Russian translation 200
 5)\; _Peter the Great through British Eyes_ (2000)
  (Russian translation 2013). _By the Banks of the 
 Neva_ was awarded the 1998 Antsiferov Prize for th
 e best work on St Petersburg published by a foreig
 n author in 1996-1997.\n\nHis most recent books ar
 e: _A People Passing Rude: British Responses to Ru
 ssian Culture_ (2013) and _In the Lands of the Rom
 anovs: An Annotated Bibliography of English-langua
 ge First-hand Accounts of Russia\, 1613-1917_ (201
 4)\, both published by Open Book Publishers of Cam
 bridge.\n\nProf. Anthony Cross joined the Patrons’
  Circle of The Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society 
 in August 2020.
LOCATION:The Auditorium\, Fitzwilliam College\, Cambridge C
 B3 0DG
CONTACT:Ksenia Afonina
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