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Anecdotes intéressantes et secrètes de la cour de Russie, tirées de ses archives; ... Publiées par un voyageur qui a séjourné treize ans en Russie. ...
Scherer, Jean Benoı̂t, 1741-Date: 1792- Books
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Lettres du comte Algarotti sur la Russie, contenant l'état du commerce, de la marine, des revenus, & des forces de cet empire: avec l'histoire de la guerre de 1735 contre les Turcs, & des observations sur la mer Baltique, & la mer Caspienne. Traduites de l'italien.
Algarotti, Francesco, 1712-1764.Date: [1769]- Books
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Anecdotes russes, ou lettres d'un officier allemand à un gentilhomme livonien, écrites de Petersbourg en 1762; tems du règne & du détrônement de Pierre III. Empereur de Russie: Recueillies & publiées par C. F. S. de la Marche.
Schwan, Christian Friedrich.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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Baron Munchausen's narrative of his marvellous travels and campaigns in Russia. Humbly dedicated and recommended to country gentlemen; and, if they please, to be repeated as their own, after a hunt, at horse races, in watering-places, and other such polite assemblies; round the bottle and fire-side.
Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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A new and more correct translation than has hitherto appeared in public, of Mr. Cornelius Le Brun's travels into Moscovy, Persia, and divers parts of the East-Indies; containing an accurate description of all such articles as are most remarkable in each of those different countries, and most worthy the attention of the curious reader. As also of their antiquities; but more particularly those relating to the famous palace of Persepolis, commonly called Chelminar by the Persians: by a gentleman of Oxford. Adorn'd with a large number of copper-plates.
Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.Date: M.DCC.LIX [1759]- Books
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Anecdotes of the Russian empire. In a series of letters, written, a few years ago, from St. Petersburg.
Richardson, William, 1743-1814.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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A voyage to Russia: Describing the laws, manners, and customs, of that Great Empire, as governed at this present by that Excellent Princess the Czarina. Shewing the beauty of her palace, the grandeur of her courtiers, the forms of building at Petersburgh, and other places: with several entertaining adventures that happened in the passage by Sea and Land. The second edition. To which is added, four letters, wrote by the author-when at Russia to a gentleman in London. Written and collected by Elizabeth Justice.
Justice, Elizabeth, -1752.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
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A journey through Russia into Persia; by two English gentlemen, who went in the year 1739, from Petersburg, in order to make a discovery how the trade from Great Britain might be carried on from Astracan over the Caspian. To which is annex'd, a summary account of the rise of the famous Kouli Kan, and his successes, till he seated himself on the Persian throne.
Spilman, James.Date: 1742