. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. 10. — Gordon. Original in the gallery of Peter the Great, in the Winter Palace at St. which every one of his steps cost him explain as well his exasper-ated and fierce moods, as the small effects produced by many ofhis measures. The earliest and must trusted helpers of Peter the Great wereforeigners, like Gordon tlie Scot (Fig. 10) and Lefort of Geneva(Fig. 11); later the Germans, Ostermann and Mlinnich, came to hisside, and rendered the greatest services to Russia; he also had na-tive


. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. 10. — Gordon. Original in the gallery of Peter the Great, in the Winter Palace at St. which every one of his steps cost him explain as well his exasper-ated and fierce moods, as the small effects produced by many ofhis measures. The earliest and must trusted helpers of Peter the Great wereforeigners, like Gordon tlie Scot (Fig. 10) and Lefort of Geneva(Fig. 11); later the Germans, Ostermann and Mlinnich, came to hisside, and rendered the greatest services to Russia; he also had na-tives about him. A few only retained the czars confidence to the 90 TJIE NORTH OF EUROPE ABOUT THE YEAR


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