special privilege and to fight only when and where they wished, the poor performance as soldiers
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Streltsy, the two Azov campaigns had conclusively demonstrated to Peter how inferior
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forced to take a new name as a nun, Helen. Later in Peter’s life, she
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razor and with his own hands began shaving off their beards. He began with Shein, the commander
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thirty years of age, with a dark complexion, proud and grave, and with an expressive countenance
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The city walls were constructed just inside the outermost canal so that the canal itself made a natural moat.
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Thus, Peter’s arrival and the rapid assembly of his forces inside the powerful walls of the fortified monastery had been carefully prearranged.
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Today, Peter’s boat is the most prized exhibit of the Navy Museum of the U.S.S.R. in the former Stock Exchange building on the point of Leningrad’s Vasilevsky Island.
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suitors doubtless few. Alexis declared that there were still a few