Solzhenitsyn and the 'Russian Question', Part 10
Two Centuries Together - The Derzhavin Memorandum
Essay first published in Church and State, No.133, July-September, 2018.
The full text can be downloaded in Word format here.
Gavriil Derzhavin (1743-1816)
Poet and statesman
The story so far
First encounter - Ukrainian and Russian
Origin of the 'Pale of Settlement'
Protecting the peasants
Derzhavin's memoir
The aftermath of Derzhavin's memoir