Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Dates, Transliteration and Other Editorial Practices -- Abbreviations Used in the Text, Notes and References -- Dates of Reigns in Eighteenthand Nineteenth-Century Russia -- Introduction -- 1 French and Russian in Catherine's Russia -- 2 The Use of French by Catherine II in her Letters to Friedrich Melchior Grimm (1774-96) -- 3 Language Use Among the Russian Aristocracy: The Case of the Counts Stroganov -- 4 The Francophone Press in Russia: A Cultural Bridge and an Instrument of Propaganda -- 5 Russian Noblewomen's Francophone Travel Narratives (1777-1848): The Limits of the Use of French -- 6 Russian or French? Bilingualism in Aleksandr Radishchev's Letters from Exile (1790-1800) -- 7 Code-Switching in the Correspondence of the Vorontsov Family -- 8 French and Russian in Ego-Documents by Nikolai Karamzin -- 9 Pushkin's Letters in French -- 10 Instruction in Eighteenth- Century Coquetry: Learning about Fashion and Speaking its Language -- 11 The Role of French in the Formation of Professional Architectural Terminology in Eighteenth-Century Russia -- 12 The Coexistence of Russian and French in Russia in the First Third of the Nineteenth Century: Bilingualism with or without Diglossia? -- Conclusion -- Notes on Contributors -- Index