Product Description: In 1700 the armies of the Russian Tsar Peter the Great and Charles XII of Sweden met at Narva to fight the first battle of what was to be known as the Great Northern War. Although this first engagement was to result in a humiliating defeat for Peter, it marked the start of a struggle that twenty years later would see Russia emerge as a major power and radically alter the balance of power in Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The letters of Amy Coles reflect a contemporary Englishwoman's perspective on life in a Russian household from 1879-1883. Four decades later, her pupil, Princess Vera, chronicled the ruin that had befallen her and her mother after the Russian revolution. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)