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Page 617
... Russian possessions , and Russia agreed to join Poland and its allies , Austria and Venice , in a Holy League against the Ottoman Turks . In accordance with this agreement , Golitsyn led two campaigns against the Crimean Tartars ...
... Russian possessions , and Russia agreed to join Poland and its allies , Austria and Venice , in a Holy League against the Ottoman Turks . In accordance with this agreement , Golitsyn led two campaigns against the Crimean Tartars ...
Page 633
... Russian delegations to the international con- gresses of Troppau , Laibach , and Verona ( 1820-22 ) and , despite the efforts of the for- eign minister Count Karl Robert Nesselrode to retard his advancement , he was appointed ( after ...
... Russian delegations to the international con- gresses of Troppau , Laibach , and Verona ( 1820-22 ) and , despite the efforts of the for- eign minister Count Karl Robert Nesselrode to retard his advancement , he was appointed ( after ...
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... Russian history , the last of a series of expedi- tions conceived by the emperor Peter I the Great to map the northern sea route to the East . The expedition was responsible for map- ping a large section of the Arctic coast of Si- beria ...
... Russian history , the last of a series of expedi- tions conceived by the emperor Peter I the Great to map the northern sea route to the East . The expedition was responsible for map- ping a large section of the Arctic coast of Si- beria ...
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