"...full of revealing detail and lively anecdotes about social gaffes and cultural clashes." Matthew Reisz, London Review of Books
"...this book makes use of a great variety of resources, including various archives." W.G. Moss, Choice
"Cross has written a book which will be useful and fascinating to many....we have here a most impressive piece of scholarship which does fulfill most of the aims which Cross had in writing it." Roger L. Emerson, Canadian Journal of History
"This is at once the book on the subject and a major study of cultural and technical transfer....written primarily for professional historians, it has much to offer other readers." Jeremy Black, History
"The volume is gracefully written as well, surely a bonus these days, and handsomely, almost impeccably produced...." Slavic Review
"This is a most impressive and scholarly work by the recognized world expert in the field of British-Russian contacts in the eighteenth century. Anthony Cross demonstrates convincingly the extent and diversity of the British community in Russia." Janet Hartley, The International History Review
"This book is a rich source for the history of court culture and patronage, particularly during the reign of Catherine the Great. Specialists in Russian history will find this book an invaluable reference source; non-Russianists will be able to make fruitful comparisons for their own work on subjects suach as material culture, expatriate communities, military history, cultural production, government-sponsored modernization, and competing `enlightenments'. ...this is a work of prodigious scholarship and unquestioned accomplishment that gives us the first comprehensive study of the lives, careers, and interconnections of a group uniquely important in Russia's development." Brenda Meehan, American Historical Review
"This is a work of truly remarkable scholarship!" Canadian Slavonic Papers
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