German Authors for Russian Children: Children’s Books in Russia at the End of the 18th Century

Abstract

In her article, “German Authors for Russian Children: Children’s Books in Russia at the End of the 18th Century”, Inna Sergienko considers the entire corpus of literary texts written for children in the late 18th century. The main focus of her investigation is devoted to the educational/instructional literature for the young: children’s encyclopedias, dictionaries, readers, and primers. The author explores how those publications were reflected in the national bibliography and which of them made it into the list of required readings. Sergienko analyzes the impact of German authors on the development of educational/instructional literature for children in the 18th century.

Keywords: 18th century, children’s literature, educational / inst­ruc­tional children’s book, retrospective national bibliography, German pedagogy of the 18th century, philanthropism