The Grand Embassy was a Russian diplomatic mission to Western Europe from 9 March 1697 to 25 August 1698 led by Peter the Great.
Peter in Russian dress during the Grand Embassy
Grand Embassy arrives in Amsterdam. Spectacle on the Amstel river on 26 August
Practice fight of the Dutch Fleet in honour of the Czar, September 1697; by Abraham Storck
Adam Silo - Fleet Manoeuvres on the Zuiderzee on 1 September 1697
Jacob de Wilde
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Jacob de Wilde was a citizen of the Dutch Republic. Of modest stock, he married well and rose socially to become ontvanger-generaal of the Admiralty of Amsterdam. He is better known, however, as a col
Jacob de Wilde (left) and Peter the Great on 13 December 1697, engraving by Maria de Wilde
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Illustration from critique of Gemmae antiquae selectae ... published in Acta Eruditorum, 1704
Illustration from critique of Selecta numismata antiqua; ex musæo Jacobi de Wilde published in Acta Eruditorum, 1693