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aC K n oW L E d g M E n T s The research and writing of this book has benefited from the support of numerous colleagues and institutions. California state Polytechnic University at Pomona provided research and professional leaves at regular intervals. The interlibrary loan services of document delivery in the University Library remain unsurpassed. in spring 2010 the École des Hautes Études en sciences sociales in Paris furnished a stimulating and hospitable environment in which to begin serious writing and share ideas with an international group of scholars. UCLa, UsC, stanford University, the University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Bremen University, and the British study group on Eighteenth-Century russia hosted presentations and workshops that offered encouragement and critique . The new york Public Library, the libraries of Harvard University, and the slavic reference service at the University of illinois supplied essential research materials. For more than a decade, Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills has hosted the rashi study group, led by rabbi Laura geller, which (like Platon) continues to remind me that religious traditions are both eternal and modern. i am indebted to all of these institutions. For careful reading and critique of the complete manuscript, i am grateful to gary M. Hamburg and gregory L. Freeze, two consummate intellectuals , scholars, and gentlemen, who served as reviewers for niUP. daniel Kaiser, Jerry Muller, and ronald Vroon generously read and commented on multiple chapters in various stages of preparation: i thank them for the perspectives and expertise that each brought to his reading(s). For more years than i can remember, annual lunches with Jane Burbank, Valerie Kivelson, and nancy Kollmann have continued to inspire. so has the annual UCLa Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern slavic studies, organized by gail Lenhoff. i am also grateful to the journals, presses, and editors who published earlier work based on materials contained in this x rELigion and EnLigHTEnMEnT in CaTHErinian rUssia book: gail Lenhoff, ann Kleimola, anthony Cross, simon dixon, gary Hamburg, semion Lyandres, slavica Publishers, the Study Group on Eighteenth -Century Russia Newsletter, the Slavonic and East European Review, and the Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography. Finally, i am indebted to amy Farranto, susan Bean, and the entire staff of niUP for their efficient and professional handling of the review and publication of this study. on a personal note i would like to mention the passing of my mentor, Marc raeff (1923–2008), whose influence remains even though he is no longer here to read completed first drafts. The same can be said of my mother, rita Capouya Kimerling (1931–2010), who read the last version of every manuscript i sent to press. The vacuum left by these two extraordinary individuals can never be filled. But life goes on, and so i thank my husband, gary; my children, Eric, Carla, and Valerie; my dad, solomon Kimerling; my siblings and our Kimerling, Mazer, and Feigelson cousins; and my Wirtschafter family in California, all of whom have nourished this book and its author with ongoing love and support. ...

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