The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire Peter Englund

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Peter Englund - «The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire»

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'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 coalition for nearly a decade, but in 1708 took his fatal decision to march for Moscow. His defeat at Poltava, in the Ukraine, proved the turning-point of the Great Northern War, heralding the collapse of the Swedish Empire and the rise of Russia, the effects of which would be felt for almost three hundred years. Swedish historian Peter Englund's vivid account of the three violent days of battle is an internationally acclaimed classic of military history, admired by scholars and the lay reader alike. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire (Peter Englund)

Полное название книги Peter Englund The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire
Автор Peter Englund
Ключевые слова английский язык, нехудожественная литература
Категории Разное
ISBN 9781780764764
Издательство I. B. Tauris
Год 2014
Название транслитом the-battle-that-shook-europe-poltava-and-the-birth-of-the-russian-empire-peter-englund
Название с ошибочной раскладкой the battle that shook europe: poltava and the birth of the russian empire peter englund