DOI:10.30842/alp2306573716322
Korkina T. D. Traktat Dzhona Lo «Dengi i
kupechestvo»: istoriya russkogo perevoda 1720 g. i
tekstologicheskiy analiz spiskov. Acta Linguistica
Petropolitana. 2020. XVI(3): 725–743.
There are three handwritten copies of a Russian translation of
the treatise «Money and Trade Considered, with a Proposal for
supplying the Nation with Money» by the Scottish economist John Law
kept in The Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in the
Russian National Library in St. Petersburg. This translation was
made by Prince I. A. Shcherbatov, one of the supporters of the John
Law financial system, in 1720. An analysis of library catalogs and
the relevant literature raises questions regarding the dating of
both the manuscripts of the Russian translation and its sources.
The inconsistencies found in their existing descriptions can be
attributed in many respects to the fact that the researchers have
failed to review the translated copies in their entirety.
The purpose of this article was to analyze all the known copies
by comparing the chapter titles in the Russian translations against
those in the English original and in a French translation. The
analysis identified three types of discrepancies: textual, lexical,
and grammatical. They show that the Russian National Library copy
chapter names are the same as in the registry, which suggests that
they were translated from the English original but put in the
registry in consistence with the French version. Only in one case,
the Russian translation still matches the wording in the French
version more than the English original. This suggests that at the
final stage of work with the translation I. A. Shcherbatov checked
the text and made minimal revisions in accordance with the French
edition. My comparison of the different versions makes it possible
to reconstruct the history of Prince I. A. Shcherbatov’s work on
the Russian translation. Initially, he started with the first
English edition of 1705, while at the final stages, before sending
the manuscript to Peter the Great in March 1720, he used the French
translation as well. Thus the existing translation copies by I. A.
Shcherbatov should be treated as two different versions.
Keywords
18th century, Russian language of the 18th
century, the Petrine era, translations of the Petrine era, John
Law, I
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