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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)

                                     

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Peter the Great, Reforming Tsar
Aleksandr Menshikov
Empress Elizabeth
Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary, and Queen of Bohemia
Voltaire


Russia's Globalization:
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    The Coronation Banquet of Maria Theresa in Prague
 
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Johann Heinrich Ramhoffsky (1700–60)
[Die Beschreibung] Des königlichen Einzugs, welchen Ihro Königliche Majestät … Maria Theresia, zu Hungarn und Böheim Königin … in dero königliche drey Prager-Städte gehalten [The Description of the Royal Arrival of Her Royal Majesty … Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia … in the Three Royal Towns of Prague]
Prague: Carl Franz Rosenmüller, [1743]
NYPL, Spencer Collection