Word: sheremetev
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...squires doing what they do in these photographs, picnicking under the birches, hunting bear, playing whist or idling away time. Though many landowners were deeply in debt, as they complained in countless novels, a few of the noble Russian families possessed highly conspicuous wealth. A glimpse of the sumptuous Sheremetev Palace in St. Petersburg recalls the astonishing fact that before Russia's serfs were emancipated in 1861, the Sheremetev family owned more than 200,000 of them...
There is, for a start, Russia's General Boris Sheremetev, who panicked when he was attacked by Charles XII of Sweden in the battle of Narva (1700). Sheremetev made a dash to safety with his entourage across the Narva River; in consequence, more than 1,000 of his leaderless troopers were swept over a waterfall and drowned...
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