‘Losing My Best Days’: Charles Whitworth, First British Ambassador to Russia
Janet Hartley describes the trials and tribulations of life for ‘our man’ in Peter the Great’s Moscow.
Janet Hartley describes the trials and tribulations of life for ‘our man’ in Peter the Great’s Moscow.
Janet Hartley discusses the mixed responses of Russia's populations to Napoleon's great gamble on an invasion and the part they played in the eventual French catastrophe.