Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia; a Study of Historical Biography
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133 Vienna, in September, 1683, could not persuade the Government of Sophia that war was better than peace, although it made it waver. The importance of this victory, and of the deliverance of Vienna from the Turks, was not under-estimated at Moscow, where it was celebrated by Te Deums in the churches and the ringing of bells. Prince Golitsyn had asked the opinion of General Gordon, who had seen twenty years' service in Eussia, most of it against the Poles and the Tartars. Gordon, in a carefull...y-written paper, considered the advantages and disad- vantages, both of peace and war, and finally concluded in favour of war, and an alliance with Poland. Golitsyn, however, was too undecided, or had too little confidence in the good intentions of Poland and Austria for him to resolve on an alliance, and the Commission of Andriissova, as has been already said, had no result. In the spring of 1684 the Republic of Venice entered, with Austria and Poland, into a Holy Alliance against the Turks, of which Pope Innocent XI.
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