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Volodymyr Bakum
Ukrainian Weekly, The
12-03-1995
Annotated edition of 18th century play.

Charles-Henrid'Estaing, "Rozenie ou Les Moscovites," with an introduction and notes by Jean-Pierre Cap. Boulder, Colo: East European Monographs, 1993, 154pp. $23.

This is an edition of an unpublished 18th century play whose author was a French nobleman, Admiral Comte Charles-Henri d'Estaing, who was guillotined during the last violent phase of the French Revolution in 1794. The manuscript, titled "Rozenie ou les Moscovites," was probably written around 1780, during the reign, in Russia, of Catherine II.

The play is in elegant classical Alexandrine verse. As one of numerous paeans to the Muscovite Tsar ...

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