"Romanoff" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... During the quarrels about the succession to the throne, when Moscow was in danger of falling under the dominion of Poland, which in this matter was supported by Catholic Europe, the Russians sought the help of Germany, of the Netherlands, and especially of England. We learn that the house of Romanoff offered to put itself in a position of inferiority to King James, who appeared as the supreme head of the Protestant world, if he would free Russia from the invasion of ...
— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke |
