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 | | At the same council it was decided that fifty young Muscovites of the best families should be sent to England, Holland and Venice, to learn the arts and sciences of the West, especially shipbuilding, fortification, and foreign languages, so as to make Russia independent of foreigners in the future. |
 | | He assured Prince Kurakin that the best thing for Russia at the present time was reconciliation with England ; indeed he made an Anglo-Russian reconciliation the condition precedent of a Franco-Russian alliance. |
 | | Peter himself was anxious to come to terms with England ; but, on the other hand, he did not want to quarrel with the Tories; indeed, the extreme Tories, or Jacobites, now hailed him as their prospective deliverer, and expected more from him than from any other European potentate. |
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