Engraved in the Memory: James Walker, Engraver to the Empress Catherine the Great, and his Russian Anecdotes
Anthony Cross
160 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0854968490
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Language: English
Publish: March 1, 1993
Account of the career of James Walker who worked for eighteen years at the courts of Catherine II, Paul I and Alexander I. The book also restores Walker as the author of anonymously published anecdotes on Russia (1821), which are an important addition to the literature on Catherine’s Russia from contemporary English visitors and residents.