Abstract
The book under review is a fine piece of historical revisionism, which focuses on the crucial role of ‘projectors’, ‘individual domestic players who employed … administrative, cultural, and other technologies to advance themselves and establish their dominance over their rivals’, at the early Russian imperial court (p. 208). By the end of the long eighteenth century, the actions of these ‘enterprisers’ made possible the creation of an educational system supported with infrastructure, finance and properly trained staff. The country’s journey to modern schooling turned out to be tortuous due to indistinct visions, conflicting agendas and the absence of a conceptual framework to determine who the education was for, what it was expected to deliver, and through what procedures. Igor Fedyukin not only painstakingly follows the leaps, bounds and double turns that characterised the evolution of Russian education from Peter I up to Catherine II, but also, and especially, traces the...
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