A Short History of Mediæval And Modern Times, for Colleges And High Schools
A Short History of Mediæval And Modern Times, for Colleges And High Schools
Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
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385. The Conquest of Azof (1696). — At this time Russia pos- sessed only one seaport. Archangel, on the White Sea, the harbor of which for a large part of the year is sealed against vessels by the 271 Digitized by VjOOQ IC 2/2 THE RISE OF RUSSIA extreme cold of that high latitude. Russia, consequently, had no marine commerce ; there was no word for fleet in the Russian language. Peter saw clearly that the most urgent need of his empire was outlets upon the sea. Hence his first aim was to wrest ...the Baltic shore from the grasp of Sweden, and the Euxine from the hands of the Turks. In 1695 Peter sailed down the Don and made an attack upon Azof, the key to the Black Sea, but was unsuccessful. The next year, how- ever, repeating the attempt, he suc- ceeded, and thus gained his first har- bor on the south. 386. Peter's Visit to the West (1697- 1698). — With a view to advancing his naval projects Peter about this time sent a large number of young Russian nobles to Italy, Holland, and England to ac- quire in those countries a knowledge of naval affairs, forbidding them to return before they had become good sailors.
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