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A staggering piece of scholarship – almost a work of art in its painstaking brilliance. It is a “bio-bibliographical study” from a Russian perspective and provides the reader with short biographies of the lives and achievements of every material international jurist, diplomat, adviser in the field during this period, covering the names of Peter the Great’s academicians, life histories of Catherine II’s diplomats, right up to the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nicolas II’s Russia.