Abstract
The article analyzes the perception of the Scottish traveler A. Swinton of the Russian Empire and its capital — St. Petersburg. Swinton visited our country at the end of the XVIII century, recording his impressions in “A Travels into Norway, Denmark and Russia, in the years 1788, 1789, 1790 and 1791”. Despite the active expansion of Russia during the reign of Catherine II in different directions, the British does not feel any alienation towards our country, positively assessing the policy of its rulers. However, behind the benevolent attitude of the author there is another semantic layer: he is trying to fit a recently “barbaric” country into the popular concept of Westernization of Eastern European space in the age of the Enlightenment.
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