Gleb Kazakov is postdoctoral researcher at the department of East European History, Historical Institute, Justus Liebig University of Gießen, Germany. He is author of

Vladislav Rjéoutski is research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Paris, France, and principal investigator of the DFG-funded research project on the languages of diplomacy in the eighteenth-century Russia. He is co-author of (with Derek Offord and Gesine Argent) The French Language in Russia. A Social, Political, Cultural, and Literary History (2018)