The present state of Russia... : The whole being the journal of a foreign minister who resided in Russia at that time... Translated from the High-Dutch (v.1)
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Type of record: Book
Title: The present state of Russia... : The whole being the journal of a foreign minister who resided in Russia at that time... Translated from the High-Dutch (v.1)
Other titles: Veränderte Russland
Classmark: BC Trv/WEB
Creator(s): Weber, Friedrich Christian (fl. 1720)
Additional creator(s): Lange, Lorenz (Other); Müller, Johann Bernhard (Other); Bruyn, Cornelis de (1652-7) (Other)
Related people: Peter I, the Great, Emperor of Russia, 1672-1725; Alekseĭ Petrovich, Csarevitch of Russia, 1690-1718; Lange, Lorenz; Müller, Johann Bernhard; Bruyn, Cornelis de
Publisher: Printed for W. Taylor, W. & J. Innys, and J. Osborn
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1722-1723
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/281320
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001341879705181
Description
Both volumes have special title-pages, that to volume 2 being dated 1722. The general title-page, bound with other preliminaries at the beginning of volume 1, and the special title-page to volume 1, are dated 1723.
Contents: v. 1. An account of the government of that country both civil and ecclesiastical; of the Czar's forces by sea and land... and what happened most remarkable at his court, particularly in relation to the late Czarewitz, from the year 1714 to 1720. The whole being the journal of a foreign minister who resided in Russia at that time. With a description of Peterbourg and Cronslot...--v. 2. Laurence Lange's journey from Petersbourg to Peking in China. John Bernard Muller's description of the Ostiacks, a nation in Siberia. The criminal proceedings against the late Czarewitz, as published by authority. Justification of the Swedish war against Russia, and the answer to it drawn up by a Russian minister of state. A project offered to his Czarish Majesty by some doctors of the Sorbone [sic] at Paris, for an union between the churches of Rome and Russia. M. Le Brun's observations on his journey through Russia to Persia.
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