GURO [GOURAUD], Stepan Andreevich, chevalier de.

Rech' o deistvii prosveshcheniia na sostoianie narodov ... [A Speech on the effect of education on the state of the people].

St Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1826. 4to, pp. [iv], 28; a very good, clean copy in contemporary plain blue paper wrappers. First edition. This early speech on the importance of higher education was delivered by the rector of the recently founded University of St Petersburg in his native French (and in a somewhat florid style, to judge from the Russian translation by Nikita Butyrsky, a fellow academic and translator of Schiller). Stéphane Gouraud had arrived in Russia with Napoleon as a young sergeant in 1812, and stayed on as a teacher of French. His publications include a number of language books for children.Not in OCLC or RLIN.

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