Classics in Russia 1700-1855: Between Two Bronze Horsemen, Marinus A. Wes : review

The author, a distinguished ancient historian and Wissenschaftshistoriker is one of the very few western classical scholars who really controls Russian. I do not mean that he can read Russian books. He can also read unpublished eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian documents; that is, he controls and can exploit archival material. His book on early Rostovtzeff is not only of permanent value because of the unique information it therefore contains. It is written in English prose that often exceeds what one finds in native speakers.