The database is the result of the project Transfer europäischer politischer Ideen und Praktiken ihrer Übersetzung im Russland des 18. Jahrhunderts, which was started at the DHI Moscow and has been continued by the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe since 2023. The focus is on the practices of translating European political terminology and the dissemination and use of printed and handwritten translations in Russia in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The database indexes and describes the enormous quantity of handwritten translations preserved in Russian archives and libraries. It includes original texts in specific social and political contexts and their translation into the reference language(s).

