In the second half of the 18th century, Scotland had very close ties with France; Gaelic was one of the first foreign languages into which the works of Denis ...

Other parts of the series In 1722, Mirza Tahmasp, the son of Sultan Hussein who had fled the besieged capital of Persia, sent several trusted men to the ...

Other parts of the series The Great Southern War ended in 1706 with the Russian army’s capture of Constantinople, and after its conclusion, the Russian army ...

Other parts of the series Grand Duke Vladimir Petrovich was born in 1691. His father, the young Emperor Peter I Fyodorovich, wanted to name his son Peter, ...

Other parts of the series The second half of Peter I Fyodorovich’s reign was marked by reforms. In 1711, the emperor curtailed the powers of the ...

The section of the third book dealing with the technical capabilities of the Russian fleet is titled “At the Forefront of the Revolution.” The time period ...