Word: streshnief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holland he built Russia's first effective navy. On land he defeated Charles XII of Sweden, most potent warrior of the age, at blood-drenched Pultava. But Peter I was a moody, discontented man. "Whose son am I?" he roared one day from the Throne. "Yours, Tihon Streshnief ? Speak or I will have you strangled...
...Mercy, mercy, Sire!" begged Courtier Streshnief (according to Historian Dolgoroukov). "How can I tell? I was not the only...
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