Engraved in the Memory: James Walker, Engraver to the Empress Catherine the Great, and his Russian Anecdotes

by Anthony Cross

Account of the career of James Walker who worked for eighteen years at the courts of Catherine II, Paul I and Alexander I. The book also restores Walker as the author of anonymously published anecdotes on Russia (1821), which are an important addition to the literature on Catherine’s Russia from contemporary English visitors and residents.

160 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1993

About the author

British academic who taught at Leeds, the University of East Anglia and was Professor of Slavonic at Cambridge.

Anthony Cross founded the study group on Eighteenth-Century Russia and this was at the centre of his research interests.