Russian philology
both vernacular and Church-Slavonic.
The influence of Peter I and debates over the function and form of literature as it related to the
Russian language in the first half of the 18th century set a stylistic precedent for the writers
during the reign of Catherine the Great in the second half of the century. However, the themes
and scopes of the works these writers produced were often more poignant, political and
controversial. Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev, for example, shocked the Russian public
with his depictions of the socio-economic condition of the serfs. Empress Catherine II
condemned this portrayal, forcing Radishchev into exile in Siberia.
Others, however, picked topics less offensive to the autocrat. Nikolay Karamzin, 17661826,
for example, is known for his advocacy of Russian writers adopting traits in the poetry and
prose like a heightened sense of emotion and physical vanity, considered to be feminine at the
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