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Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825
1453 Through the Reign of Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584) The Time of Troubles to the First Romanovs (1598-1682) Peter the Great and His Legacy (1682-1762) The Age of Catherine the Great (1762-1801) The Reign of Emperor Alexander I (1801-1825)
Napoleon’s Nightmare

Engagement Symbol
Napoleon’s Nightmare
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borck
Napoleon’s erster Traum in Moskwa [Napoleon’s First Dream in Moscow]
St. Petersburg: I. Glasunow, 1812
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division (originally in the collections of the Great Catherine Palace, Tsarskoe Selo)



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