The Seven Years" War. How Russia determined the fate of Europe

Winston Churchill called the military conflict of 1756-1763 "First World War". The seven -year war was going on both in Europe and the ocean: in North America, in the countries of the Caribbean, in India, in the Philippines. The war was attended by all European great powers of that time, as well as the majority of the middle and small states of Europe and even some Indian tribes.
For our country it was a strange war in which the Russian Empire, freeing from German power, the old Baltic and Slavic lands, proved to be the top of world fate, and then abandoned all the conquests when Empress Elizabeth was replaced by a fan of politics of the Prussian king Frederick Great Peter III.
Andrey Timofeevich Bolotov - Russian writer, memoirist, philosopher -mod, scientist, botanist and forestry, one of the founders of agronomy and prank in Russia. Count Johann Ludwig Gordt - Swedish aristocrat. The son of a cap, a representative of the "party of the world", loyal to Russia. Professional military