In memory of Peter the Great
2nd September 2015
This is the first edition of Thomas Consett’s sermon at the English Church in St Petersburg following the death of Peter the Great, the first oratorical response to the Tsar’s death (Berkov, p. 13). It was printed in Reval (present-day Tallinn, Estonia). Consett (1678?–1730) was the first chaplain to the British Factory when it moved to […]
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