Abstract
The article analyzes the elements of classical republicanism in the key texts of the late period of Catherine the Great’s Russia: A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow by Alexander Radishchev and Vadim of Novgorod by Yakov Knyazhnin. The major elements of the republican style in both texts are the figures of Cato and Brutus, the recognition of the military power of republics, the apology of struggle against tyranny and of heroic suicide. This style of political reasoning contributes to the formation, in the texts by Radishchev and Knyazhnin, of a new republican concept of political liberty conceived as a specific manner of public behavior and the rejection of potential arbitrary rule.
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