Author: Julius von Klaproth
Publisher:
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 421

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Author: Julius von Klaproth
Publisher:
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Category : Caucasus
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Author: Jonas Hanway
Publisher: London : sold by Dodsley ; Cornhill [Eng. : sold by] Willock
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: Anthony Cross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521782982
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Peter the Great's visit to England in the first months of 1698 has been called 'the most picturesque episode in the history of Anglo-Russian relations', and lives on most vividly in popular memory for the devastation caused at Sayes Court, John Evelyn's house and garden in Deptford. Recent celebrations of the tercentenary of that visit have refocused attention on the most famous of Russian tsars, but the story of Britain's love-hate relationship with him over the intervening centuries has never before been told. This study analyses changing British reactions to Peter in an extremely wide variety of printed sources - newspapers and journals, letters and collections of anecdotes, histories and biographies, novels, poems and plays. A final innovative chapter is devoted to images of the tsar as interpreted by British painters from Godfrey Kneller to Daniel Maclise, and by a whole cohort of engravers, illustrating biographies and travel accounts.

Author: Edmund Spencer
Publisher:
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Category : Black Sea
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Author: William Coxe
Publisher:
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Category : Europe, Northern
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Author: Florence Craufurd Grove
Publisher:
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Category : Caucasus
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Author: Betty Kemp
Publisher: London ; Melbourne [etc.] : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's P.
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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"Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer (December 1708? 11 December 1781) was an English rake and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1762?1763) and founder of the Hellfire Club."--Wikipedia.

Author: Anthony Glenn Cross
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Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Author: Mary Seacole
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513294822
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 117

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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857) is the autobiography of Mary Seacole. Recognized for her pioneering healthcare work for soldiers and citizens around the world, Seacole was also the first Black Briton to publish an autobiographical work. Although Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands underwent editing by an anonymous person, it is a first-person account of Seacole’s experiences during outbreaks of cholera, malaria, and war. “As I grew into womanhood, I began to indulge that longing to travel which will never leave me while I have health and vigour. I was never weary of tracing upon an old map the route to England; and never followed with my gaze the stately ships homeward bound without longing to be in them, and see the blue hills of Jamaica fade into the distance.” Adventurous and energetic, empathetic and kind, Mary Seacole was a pioneering traveler and healer who saved countless lives and cared for the sick and dying on both sides of the Atlantic. From her early work with cholera and malaria patients in the Caribbean to her famous British Hotel, opened on the outskirts of Sevastopol during the Crimean War, Seacole served the suffering without regard for her own health or finances. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.