Book/Printed Material The present state of Russia ... Being an account of the government of that country, both civil and ecclesiastical; of the Czar's forces by sea and land, the regulation of his finances, the several methods he made use of to civilize his people and improve the country, his transactions with several eastern princes, and what happened most remarkable at his court, particularly in relation to the late czarewitz, from the year 1714, to 1720 ... Translated from the High-Dutch ... Volume 1