1697 CE

Politics & Power

Peter the Great Begins Grand Embassy

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The Grand Embassy (Russian: Вели́кое посо́льство, romanized: Velíkoye posól'stvo) was a Russian diplomatic mission to Western Europe from 9 March 1697 to 25 August 1698 led by Peter the Great.

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Peter I in 1697-98MarcusPublic domainWikimedia Commons

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