Piotr Nater
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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Russia seemed lost, a helpless prey to foreigners.
She was saved by the patriotism, the courage, the resolution of the common people, that multitude which the worthless and selfish nobles loved to consider and to treat as slaves.
A butcher of Nizhninovgorod, Kosma Minin, summoned first his fellow citizens, and then, when these had readily answered his call, all true Russians to deliver their country from Polish heretics.
Crowds came together to accomplish this task.
The inhabitants of Great Dovgorod were easily induced to renounce their Swedish prince.
The citizens of Pskoff likewise drove out the priest Isidor.
The Russians, once more united, attacked the Poles near Moscow, and after a fierce battle lasting four days, august twenty to august twenty third, sixteen twelve, won a complete victory.
Two months later the Polish garrison of the Kremlin surrendered after a brave defense, and with the exception of Smolensk, all Russia was now rid of foreigners.
The question of supreme moment was now to place the nation under the rule of an able and legitimate chief.
The nobles, the higher clergy, and representatives of the cities and circles met together, and
After long deliberations, Michael, the son of that Fyodor Romanov whom Godunov had thrust into a monastery, was elected Tsar, on february twenty first, sixteen thirteen, because he was the youngest and least powerful of the candidates, and had, moreover, formally acknowledged the right of the Boyars to cooperate in the government.
During the following years the Romanov dynasty established itself more and more firmly on the throne, and the year sixteen thirteen may be considered as having put a final stop to the confusion that had prevailed in Russian politics.
The Romanovs are today the ruling dynasty of Russia.
Charles the Ninth had been unable to do anything to maintain the claims of his son Charles Philip to the Russian throne.
He already had on his hands hostilities with Poland and with Denmark in sixteen eleven.
In this latter country, the peaceable Frederick II had, in the year fifteen eighty eight, been succeeded by Christian IV, then only eleven years of age, and
As soon as this prince became his own master, in fifteen sixty nine he manifested a most ambitious spirit.
He wished to acquire military fame and turned upon Sweden, which he thought occupied in the Baltic provinces, and whose king he deemed weak and sickly.
He found a pretext for war in certain disputes about the Lapland boundaries.
His plan was at first successful.
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