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The Rest Is History Returns, available now in all good bookshops. The Tsar is a man of very hot temper, soon inflamed, and very brutal in his passion. He erases his natural heat by drinking much brandy, which he rectified himself with great application. He is subject to convulsive motions all over his body, and his head seems to be afflicted with these. He was desirous to understand our doctrine.
He was indeed resolved to encourage learning and to polish his people by sending some of them to travel in other countries and to draw strangers to come and live among them. He seemed apprehensive still of his sister's intrigues. After I had seen him often and had conversed much with him, I could not but adore the depth of the providence of God.
that had raised up such a furious man to so absolute authority over so great a part of the world. So there we have a Scotsman, Dominic, as you could tell from my magnificent impression of a Scotsman.
Yeah.
An uncle, Gilbert Burnett, who met with Peter the Great in London in 1698. But by far the most significant and interesting thing about Gilbert Burnett is that he was the Bishop of Salisbury. He was. And how wonderful it is. We are doing this series about Peter the Great, who we left as Master of Moscow. He'd crushed his sister Sophia's resistance. He'd secured the loyalty of the Streltsy. These...
frankly sinister and faintly grotesque soldiers who wear yellow boots and caftans and who have a great fondness for jumping on the body parts of people that they've chopped and sliced into little bits. Yeah. But here he is in England. Yeah. He's twitching uncontrollably. He's drinking brandy. He's chatting about Protestant doctrine and he's doing it with a man who
From my neck of the woods, from Wiltshire, from Salisbury. From the Salisbury area? Yes.
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