"Dr. Ewington’s frequent references to the works of such pioneers in the study of eighteenth-century Russian literature as David Lang, Grigorii Gukovskii and Pavel Berkov and to their successors in our time such as Joachim Klein, the late Viktor Zhivov and numerous writers of PhD theses situate her text in the mainstream of studies of eighteenth-century Russian literature, to which her own book makes a substantial and valuable contribution." —The Slavonic and East European Review