Famous foreigners in the service of Russia

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Shishov, A.V

Znamenitye Inostrantsy na Sluzhbe Rossii

[ Famous foreigners in the service of Russia]

Moscow: Tsentrpoligraf, 2001
619 p. [48 ill.]
Serie: Rossiia zabytaia i neizvestnaia: Gosudarstvennye deiateli i polkovodtsy
Hardcover. 14 x 21.5 cm
ISBN: 5227014469
Language: Russian

This book includes biographical stories of twenty-one foreigners who played an important role in Russian life in the late 18th-mid 19th centuries. Among them were: the Scottish tutor of Peter the Great General Patrick Gordon; General and Admiral Francois Lefort; General Field marshal Count Jan Sapega; General Field Marshal Count Burchard Minich; Grand Admiral Samuel Greig, Commander Vitus Bering, and Joseph De Ribas.

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» History: General Works and Philosophy of History » Imperial Russia: 17th to the 19th Centuries

» Who is Who / Personalities/Biographies » Miscellaneous

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» Liubimets Rossii, ili Khabryi Kul`nev

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