Description: Between 2007 and 2010, the Russian-German project "Poesie in der Festkultur" (poetry in celebratory culture) under the direction of Petr Bucharkin, Ulrike Jekutsch and Natal'ja Kocetkova produced a first inventory of Russian occasional poetry in the 18th century. As part of this study, more than 1,500 texts (partly in German, Latin,