Table of Contents:
  • 1. Feofan Prokopovich: Sermon on royal authority and honor
  • 2. Mikhail Vasile̓vich Lomonosov: Panegyric to the sovereign emperor, Peter the Great: of blessed and everlasting honored memory
  • 3. Mikhail M. Shcherbatov: Petition of the city of Moscow on being relegated to oblivion
  • [The pace of Russia's modernization]
  • 4. Nikolai Ivanovich Novikov: [On man's high estate]
  • On the upbringing and instruction of children
  • 5. Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin: Ta Hsüeh, or that great learning which compromises higher Chinese philosophy
  • A discourse on permanent laws of state
  • 6. Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin: Love of country and national pride
  • The book trade and the love of reading in Russia
  • Foreword to History of the Russian State
  • 7. Ivan Petrovich Pnin: An essay on enlightenment with reference to Russia
  • 8. Petr Iakovlevich Chaadaev: Letters on the philosophy of history
  • 9. Ivan Vasile̓vich Kireevski: On the nature of European culture and its relation to the culture of Russia
  • Letters to Count E.E. Komarovskii
  • 10. Aleksei Stepanovich Khomiakov: On Humboldt
  • 11. Konstantin Sergeevich Aksakov: On the internal state of Russia
  • 12. Vissarion Grigore̓vich Belinskii: Letter to N.V. Gogol
  • 13. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Dobroliubov: The organic development of man in connection with his mental and spiritual activities
  • 14. Feodor M. Dostoevsky: Pushkin, a sketch
  • 15. Konstantin Dmitrievich Kavelin: A letter to F.M. Dostoevsky
  • 16. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy: The meaning of the Russian Revolution
  • 17. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok: The people and the intelligentsia
  • The intelligentsia and the revolution
  • 18. Viacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov and Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon: A corner-to-corner correspondence.