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The Romanovs and Peter the Great's Grand Embassy to the West
In 1697, Tsar Peter I of Russia—known to history as Peter the Great—embarked on an unprecedented journey: the Grand Embassy, a diplomatic mission that would take him incognito through Sweden, Prussia, the Dutch Republic, England, and the Holy Roman Empire. This episode follows Peter's eighteen months abroad, where he worked as a common shipwright in Dutch shipyards, visited the English Parliament in secret, recruited hundreds of European engineers and officers, and absorbed the technological and cultural innovations that would reshape Russia. We explore his meetings with William III of…
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