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Peter the Great
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- Правообладатель
- Head of Zeus
- Год выхода издания
- 2012
- Издательство
- Head of Zeus
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- Anna Chasovikovaцитирует11 дней назад
The Ottoman Empire, every hectare conquered by the sword, stretched over three continents. The sweep of the sultan’s rule was greater than that of a Roman emperor. It embraced the whole of southeastern Europe. It stretched westward across the entire coast of Africa to the Moroccan border. It touched the shores of the Caspian Sea, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. The Black Sea was an Ottoman lake. Great cities as distant and as different as Algiers, Cairo, Bagdad, Jerusalem, Athens and Belgrade were ruled from Constantinople. Twenty-one modern nations have been created from the former territories of the Ottoman Empire.* - Anna Chasovikovaцитирует12 дней назадOf the 2,000 officers, only 200 received money from their families; the rest were obliged to learn a trade in order to feed themselves. In time, these former warriors, hitherto knowledgeable only in the art of soldiering, developed an astonishing number of talents. In Siberia alone, a thousand Swedish officers turned themselves into painters, goldsmiths, silversmiths, turners, joiners, tailors, shoemakers, makers of playing cards, snuffboxes and excellent gold and silver brocade.
- Anna Chasovikovaцитирует12 дней назадFinally, there were the Cossack followers of Mazeppa and Gordeenko to be considered. They were now Charles’ responsibility. If Charles or his Swedes were captured, the Cossacks would be treated as traitors and tortured and hung. It would be a stain on Swedish honor to permit these allies to fall into Russian hands.
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