Posol III klassa: khroniki "vremen Ochakovskikh i pokorenʹi︠a︡ Kryma"
2-e izd.pererab. i dop.
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Serie Zapiski o drevneĭ i novoĭ Rossii
)
Illustrations and maps
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The book by an outstanding historian and diplomat P.V. Stegnii, based on materials of the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire, takes the reader into the era of Empress Catherine the Great. According to the author, his work is «a narration about the Russian diplomat Obreskov Alexei Mikhailovich (1718-1787), containing the authentic data about the imprisoned officials of the Russian embassy, their hardships and wanderings in the derriere-garde of the Turkish army. The publication is provided with a multitude of rare illustrations of the XVIII-XIXth centuries.