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 Emperor Vladimir X Petrovich came to power on November 25, 1736, as a result of a palace coup. Everything was staged to make it ...

Other parts of the series The conspiracy by the Prince of Wales, Infante Francis, and his two sons—the elder, the Duke of Cornwall and Infante David of ...

As has been mentioned more than once in previous chapters, King Henry VIII of England died on August 7, 1511, in the depths of the English Channel when his ...

Other parts of the series Grand Duke Peter Vladimirovich was born in 1712 to Grand Duke Vladimir Petrovich, heir to the throne, the eldest son of Emperor ...

Other parts of the series Grand Duke Eustace Fyodorovich was born in 1667 to Emperor Fyodor II Vladimirovich and Empress Maria Ivanovna Sheina. He spent ...

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 ...