312 Nations lately become Literary. 



Lomonozof, Sumorokof, Kherashof, and Ka- 

 ramsin, were particularly mentioned in a former 

 chapter. Besides these, Kni^shnin, Derschaven, 

 Petrof, Van Wisin, and Yelaghen, are enu- 

 merated, with great respect, among those Russian 

 poets, who are either now living or lately deceased. 



Even the Fine Arts have not been without some 

 zealous and able cultivators in the empire under 

 review. In Painting, Levitsky and Koslof, be- 

 sides several foreigners, are much distinguished; 

 the former in portrait, the latter in history. In 

 Sculpture, Schubin, Maschalof, Ivanof, Gar- 

 deyef, and Khailof, are mentioned as respect- 

 able artists. And in Engraving, Skorodumof and 

 Schlepper, besides others, drawn from different 

 countries, afford abundant evidence that, even in 

 the inhospitable climate of Russia, the elegant arts 

 can live and flourish. 



The study of Languages has been, for a number 

 of years, more cultivated in Russia than could have 

 been expected, considering the infant state of li- 

 terature in that country. Besides all the attention 

 paid to the cultivation of the vulgar tongue, which 

 was before noticed, and the numerous instances of 

 profound acquaintance with the best writers of 

 Greece and Rome; 5 considerable labour has been 

 bestowed, by a number of the literati of that em- 

 pire, on the study of various living languages. 

 The astonishing monument of learning and indus- 

 try, in this branch of inquiry, given to the public 

 by Professor Pallas, was mentioned in a former 



s Among many persons who might be mentioned a* having distinguished 

 themselves by their attainments in classic literature, it would be improper 

 not to take some notice of Plato, Archbishop of Moscow, and Euge- 

 nius, a naturalized foreigner, Archbishop of Slavensk and Kherson. The 

 former has the character of a profound scholar; but the latter is, perhaps, 

 still more celebrated for his translation of the Eclogues and Georgics of Vir- 

 gil, into Greek hexameters, which was, a few years since, splendidly 

 printed in folio, at the espense of Prince Potemkin. 



