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  • In Mikhayl Mikhaylovich Shcherbatov

    …1759 and 1761 in the Articles and Translations for Use and Amusement, Russia’s first scientific and literary journal, which had been founded by Prince M.V. Lomonosov in 1755. These early works paradoxically combine the ideas of the Enlightenment with the pessimistic estimate of human nature and social progress that prompted…

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