Catherine the Great: Selected Letters by Andrew Kahn and Kelsey Rubin-Detlev
Journal: Comitatus
Year: 2019

Reviewed by: Catherine the Great: Selected Letters by Andrew Kahn and Kelsey Rubin-Detlev Patrick Hunt Catherine the Great: Selected Letters, translated with introduction and notes by Andrew Kahn and Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018) 434 pp. Enlightenment intellectuals were fond of thinking of themselves collectively as a Republic of Letters for a good reason: they were prolific correspondents with other philosophes, diplomats, thinkers, scientists, and shapers of policy