Two Books on Expeditions to Russian Lapland in the 18th Century (Two Geneva Astronomers in Russia During the Reign of Catherine II: Diaries of the Journey to Russian Lapland, Undertaken by Jean-Louis Pictet and Jacques-André Mallet on the Occasion of the Transit of Venus. 1768‒1769 / ed. S.Ya. Karp; transl. from French: E.V. Morozova, K.Y. Shorokhov; commentary: S.Ya. Karp, V.A. Somov, D.A. Bayuk, M.Yu. Shevchenko. Moscow, 2024; M.N. Petrovsky. Sketches on the Eighteenth-Century Expeditions of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences to Russian Lapland. Moscow, 2024)

• Authors: Kirikova O.A.¹, Speranskaya N.M.²
• Affiliations:
  1. Saint Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  2. National Library of Russia
• Issue: No 3 (2025)
• Pages: 245-253
• Section: Reviews
• URL: https://rjeid.com/0130-3864/article/view/685334
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0130386425030198
• ID: 685334

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Olga A. Kirikova

Saint Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2527-5815

старший научный сотрудник отдела публикаций и выставочной деятельности

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Natalia M. Speranskaya

National Library of Russia

Email: Voltaire@nlr.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0002-4830-7864

кандидат филологических наук, заведующая Центром изучения эпохи Просвещения «Библиотека Вольтера» отдела редких книг

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

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