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4 unusual facts about Fyodor Apraksin


Fyodor Apraksin

Apraksin's last expedition was to Revel in 1726, to cover the town from an anticipated attack by the English government, with whom the relations of Russia at the beginning of the reign of Catherine I were strained.

That same year he assisted the tsar in launching a new harbour in Revel.

Robert Nisbet Bain, The Pupils of Peter the Great (London, 1897).

Magnus StiernstrĂ¥le

In March, it was attacked by a numerically superior Russian force under General Fyodor Apraksin.



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