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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2009
In discussing Catherine II's proficiency in the Russian language, the historian Kliuchevaskii remarked that “she could make four mistakes in spelling a Russian word consisting of three letters.” According to Peter Toumanoff, we have performed a similar feat by making no fewer than five major mistakes in a single paper.
1 Kliuchevskii, V., Kurs russkoi istorii [A course in Russian history] (Moscow, 1937), vol. 5, p. 15. The word in question was “eshche” (“shch” is a single letter in Russian) which she spelled “ischo.”Google Scholar
2 In our notation, F(L s, T s) is per capita output on the serfs' part of the estate and RL and RT are the marginal products of the per capita labor and land inputs L s and T s, which are measured in hours and desiatinas, respectively.Google Scholar