Foreign experts in Russia in the era of Peter the Great

The biographical dictionary, including more than 700 articles, talks about immigrants from the francolical countries of Europe in Russia under Peter the Great - their activities, life, religious life, and families. These people left a deep and original imprint on the development of the country, their contribution to Russian culture is huge. Architects, shipbuilders, military, engineers, cooks, hairdressers, representatives of many other professions, they took part in the construction of the new Russian capital, in the creation of palaces and parks, stood at the beginning of the Russian fleet, and under their supervision, Russian secular art. And, perhaps, the most important thing - with their participation, all Russian life was rewritten.
edited by V. S. Rzheutsky and D. Yu. Gusevich, with the participation of A. Mezen