Five places in Moscow that you didn't know were British
My first travel video about Moscow.
Peter the Great's Will and London
I have recently been researching an article on the supposed "Testament of Peter the Great". For the uninitiated, this is a famous example of a 'political fake': the supposed will left by Russian Emperor Peter I (1672-1725), including commandments to his successors to expand Russian power over her neighbours; in some versions, it was expanded to include an exhortation to world domination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Will_of_Peter_the_Great The "Testament" has long been known to be a fake. The evidence for this is partly anachronistic language (e.g. references to 'Germany' at a time when this nation-state did not exist), and partly the fact that no such document was ever found, despite free access to the archives of Tsarist Russia. This has not stopped it from being dug up whenever anti-Russian propaganda requires it, including by Germans during both World Wars; by both Napoleons (the First, during his 1812 invasion of Russia, and the Third dur...
