"The milestones of this period are represented by the end of the „Thirty years' war (1618-1648)" and the final agreements of the Vienna Congress in 1814 and the 1815birth of the Holly Alliance, after the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.
This is the period in which the political thinking of Europe was influenced by the works of Jean Bodin, Niccolò Machiavelli, Hugo Grotius, Leibnitz, Axel Oxenstierna, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Abbe de Saint Pierre, Duke of Sully, DemetriusCantemir. We will try to study the information about the foreign preceptors of Peter the Great from Strangers Neighbourhood from Moscow as: Franz Lefort from Geneve, Gordon of Scotland, Timmerman from Strasbourg, Winnius from Netherlands and the Russian Zotov, and the Illuminist influence on the political thinking of the Czarina Catherine II of Russia, Czars Pavel and Alexander.
The Kingdom of Sweden was a regional power in the North of Europe which involved in the geopolitical movements of the moment with Poland, Prussia, France, Austria and Russia…."
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