Englund Peter: The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: 'This victory', exulted Peter the Great, 'has laid the final stone in the foundations of St Petersburg!' The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of the Tsar's vast Russian Empire. In 1700, seeking to open Russian trade routes to the West, the Tsar combined with Denmark, Saxony and Poland to attack Swedish hegemony in the North. Against the odds, King Charles XII of Sweden subdued the hostile…