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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Moscow: Fond S. Dubova, 2000 515 p Serie: Istoriia Rossii i Doma Romanovykh v Memuarakh Sovremennikov XVII-XX Hardcover14.5 x 21.5 cm ISBN: 5941770022 Language: Russian
This volume of the series “History of Russia and the House of Romanov in the Memoirs of Contemporaries” is about the results of the Northern War, which gave Russia access to the Baltic Sea, and therefore provided an opportunity for permanent and reliable economic, political, and cultural relations with Europe. It includes two works by German statesmen about Russia under Peter the First and Catherine the First. The first includes the final chapters of the diary of the F. W. Berkhgol`ts (The first part of this diary is in the book Neistovyi Reformator (Violent Reformer)). The diary tells about the court and life of the nobility in St. Petersburg and Moscow, the first years of Catherine`s rule, the marriage of Anna Petrovna and Duke Charles Frederick of Hol`stein Gottorp. The second memoir of minister and diplomat G. F. Bassevich about the Northern War, Russian relations with European countries, the march to Persia in 1722, political life in St. Petersburg after the death of Peter the First. Name index.